Husband Richard Graham Morrison 1 2
Born: 25 Jul 1844 - Delaware Twp, Mercer Co, PA 3
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Father: William Morrison (1800-1864) 3
Mother: Sarah Graham (Abt 1818-1856) 3
Marriage: 17 Dec 1874 - Sandy Lake, Mercer Co, PA 4
Wife Elizabeth Egbert 5
Born: 7 Jan 1847 - Sandy Lake Twp, Mercer Co, PA 6
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Father: John Nixon Egbert, Esq. (1823-Bef 1913) 7 8
Mother: Ann Fowler ( -Bef 1913) 8 9
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1 F Sarah Graham Morrison 4 10
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2 M Egbert R. Morrison 4 11
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Spouse: Josephine Berghoff ( - ) 11
3 F Gertrude Morrison 4 11
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General Notes: Husband - Richard Graham Morrison
With the exception of the five years which the family spent in Brookfield, Ohio, Richard G. Morrison always lived in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, and beginning in 1867 his business life was passed in connection with the iron interests of the borough of Sharon. Until 1864 he lived at home and attended the neighboring schools, teaching in the winter of the following year near Clarksville. In the spring of 1866 he returned to farming and during the later months of that year attended Oberlin College. In the winter of 1866 Mr. Morrison located at Sharon and in the summer of 1867, after a few more months of farming, he obtained a position as bookkeeper with the foundry firm of William McGilvray & Co. Both in this capacity and as general manager of their foundry and machine shops, he continued with this firm as long as it existed. For a number of years afterward he was bookkeeper for S. Runser & Co., well known boilermakers of Sharon. Mr. Morrison afterward purchased the interest of the principal partner and continued in the business under the firm name of R. G. Morrison & Co.
This was the basis of the business reorganized by Mr. Morrison in 1878 as the Sharon Boiler Works, Limited, and in 1899 incorporated as the Sharon Boiler Works. Beginning in that year Mr. Morrison was treasurer and general manager of the business and was the main factor in developing it to a place of importance. The large plant made a specialty of manufacturing the Wheeler vertical water tube boilers and stationary tubular boilers, its output also consisting of stand pipes, tanks, blast furnaces, iron shutters, vault and prison work and all kinds of sheet iron work. A large outside force was constantly employed in the erection of stand pipes for water works, and among the various cities in the United States and Canada which had specimens of this branch of the business were the following: Kankakee, Illinois; Cornwall, Ontario; Salisbury, North Carolina; Washington, Indiana; Beaver Dam, Wisconsin; Waterford, New York; Berwick, Pennsylvania; Homer, New York; Cobourg, Ontario; Marshall, Michigan; Hamburg, New York; Canton, New York; Rhinelander, Wisconsin; Fort Smith, Arkansas; and Brooklyn, New York. Mr. Morrison's time and abilities were not entirely absorbed by this large enterprise and generous portions of his time were devoted to religious and charitable affairs of the locality. He was identified with the Presbyterian church and was a life member of the Sharon Lodge No. 250, A. F. & A. M., serving as secretary of this lodge for two years. [HMC 1909, 369]
General Notes: Wife - Elizabeth Egbert
She was a graduate of the Edinboro State Normal school, and prior to her marriage was a successful school teacher for eight or ten years at Sharon, Oil City and Franklin, and was a member of several literary societies.