. The history of the Morison or Morrison family with most of the "Traditions of the Morrisons" (clan MacGillemhuire), hereditary judges of Lewis, by Capt. F. W. L. Thomas, of Scotland, and a record of the descendants of the hereditary judges to 1880. A complete history of the Morison settlers of Londonderry, , of 1719, and their descendants, with genealogical sketches. Also, of the Brentwood, Nottingham, and Sanbornton, Morisons, and branches of the Morisons who settled in Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Nova Scotia, and descendants of the Morisons of Preston Grange, Scotland, an
. The history of the Morison or Morrison family with most of the "Traditions of the Morrisons" (clan MacGillemhuire), hereditary judges of Lewis, by Capt. F. W. L. Thomas, of Scotland, and a record of the descendants of the hereditary judges to 1880. A complete history of the Morison settlers of Londonderry, , of 1719, and their descendants, with genealogical sketches. Also, of the Brentwood, Nottingham, and Sanbornton, Morisons, and branches of the Morisons who settled in Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Nova Scotia, and descendants of the Morisons of Preston Grange, Scotland, and other families. n to what is pub-lished in Tuttles History of Michigan, mention is made that Morrison and C. G. Wickes of Chicago were the joint ownersand operators of the Dakota and Sioux City and Pembina Rail-roads; that Mr. Morrison had been a member of the RepublicanState Central Committee for six years; was connected with theMasonic and Odd Fellow fraternities, having been Master ofOccidental Lodge, F. & A. M., and the fii-st Noble Grand ofBurnett Lodge, I. O. O. F., of St. Joseph, Mich. In religion,Mr. Morrison is put down as a Liberal; and that during abusiness career of thirty years, he had been, with three exceptions,unknown to the courts as suitor, juryman, or witness. Mr. Mor-rison was married in Elkhart Co., Ind., Jan. 17, 1848, to Julia-Ann Reynolds, of Buffalo, N. Y., who was born there Jan. 21,1832. The same history gives the following account of his maternalancestry: His mother was a descendant of Col. John Jessup,who, for his fidelity to Charles I, was rewarded by Charles II. 96] SIXTH GKNERATION. — GEOKGE-KAMSAY MOKKISON. 65 with a large tract of land on the HudHon liiver in the State ofNew York. This tract, known as Jessups tract, became historicthrough its confiscation by the State of New York immediatelyafter the revolutionary war (1776). In 1878, Mr. Morrison erected a very extensive wooden-waremanufactory at St. Joseph, Mich., and in 1879 erected
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