Horace Henry Morrison

MORRISON, PICKENS, HATFIELD

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Date: 4/10/2009 at 19:03:09

A Narrative History
of
The People of Iowa
with
SPECIAL TREATMENT OF THEIR CHIEF ENTERPRISES IN
EDUCATION, RELIGION, VALOR, INDUSTRY,
BUSINESS, ETC.
by
EDGAR RUBEY HARLAN, LL. B., A. M.
Curator of the
Historical, Memorial and Art Department of Iowa
Volume IV
THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc.
Chicago and New York
1931

HORACE HENRY MORRISON, county treasurer of Jasper County, is a World war
veteran, member of an old and prominent family of Newton, and was born in that
Iowa town August 28, 1892.

His father, Henry S. Morrison, was born in Orange County, New York, and on
coming out to Iowa first settled in Davenport and later moved to Newton. He
was a farmer, also for many years was in the hardware business, and he served a
a justice of the peace at Newton. Henry S. Morrison married Martha B.
Pickens, born in Ireland. There were four children: Leland P. of Washington
Iowa; Charles W., of Newton; James Gordon, of Newton; and Horace Henry.

Horace Henry Morrison attended school at Newton, graduating in 1913, and for
over a year was a student in the Capital City Commercial College at Des
Moines. He remained at Des Moines with the Central Life Insurance Society until
America entered the World war.

On April 20, 1917, he enlisted, and became a part of the famous Rainbow,
Forty-second Division, made up largely of National Guardsman. He became a
sergeant in the Machine Gun Company of the One Hundred and Sixty-eight Infantry,
and after a period of training at Camp Mills, Long Island, went overseas and
was with his regiment and division throughout the two years of its foreign
service, including some of the heaviest fighting on the western front in 1918
and later with the Army of Occupation.

Mr. Morrison received his honorable discharge at Camp Dodge May 16, 1919,
and soon after his return to Newton was made deputy county treasurer. He served
three years and in 1925 was elected county treasurer, was reelected in 1927
and in 1928 was elected on the Republican ticket for a third term, which he
is now serving.

Mr. Morrison is a member of the B. P. O. Elks, the Kiwanis Club, the
American Legion Post and is a Presbyterian. He married, August 28, 1923, Miss Vera
Hatfield, of Newton.