MORRISON, A.W.

MORRISON, HOOPER

Posted By: Marilyn Norris Holmes
Date: 4/15/2013 at 15:16:50

The 1880 History of Poweshiek County Iowa

Warren Township

Page 812

MORRISON, A.W.--Farmer and stock-raiser, section 33, P.O. Brooklyn. Was born February 23, 1828, in Greenbrier county, West Virginia, where he attended school till 1839, when, in company with his parents, he moved to Allen county, Ohio. There, after finishing his education, he learned the shoemaker's trade, at which he worked until 1859, then came to Iowa and engaged in farming in Lincoln township till 1871, when he bought and settled where he now lives and owns 160 acres of improved land. Mr. Morrison was married in November, 1851, in Putnam county, Ohio, to Miss Margaret Hooper, a resident and native of Ohio, and from this union they have ten children: John S. (born April 16, 1854), Milton W. (born February 28, 1856), Sarah C. (born September 19, 1858), Willard L. (born January 14, 1861), Andrew W. (born January 20, 1863; died October 2, 1864), Mary M. (born February 2, 1866, and died October 1, 1880), Rutha J. (born December 10, 1867), Almeda F. (August 14, 1870), Estella E. (born March 27, 1875), Bertha M. (born May 3, 1878).