John Leland Morrison and Daisy Thorne

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Husband John Leland Morrison ^{1 2}

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           Born:  - Sheakleyville, Sandy Creek Twp, Mercer Co, PA
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         Father: Hon. Levi Morrison (1839-1917) 3
         Mother: Caroline S. Philips (      -      ) 4

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Wife Daisy Thorne ⁵

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         Father: Thomas Thorne (1833-1896) 5 6
         Mother: Helen Louise Mandeville (      -Aft 1909) 7

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General Notes: Husband - John Leland Morrison

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His father owned the “Advance Argus” and later was a founder of the “Evening Record,” the two publications which were merged into the “Record-Argus”. For many years he worked together with his father in the newspaper business. At the death of his father he became sole owner of the two papers. The “Advance Argus” and the “Evening Record” were consolidated in 1924 to form the “Record-Argus.” The merger also included the “Jamestown Argus-World” and the “Stoneboro Citi­zen,” owned by the Advance Argus Company. The "Shenango Valley News” had been merged some years earlier with the “Advance Argus.” The “Greenville Record-Argus” took an increasingly important role in the life of Greenville and that region of Pennsylvania, and Mr. Morrison, as its owner and editor, figured with increasing prominence in the affairs of newspaper­dom and in public life in the district.
To his work as newspaper owner and editor, John L. Morrison added other activities in connection with his profession. In 1918 he was on the editorial staff of the “Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.” He also did some writ­ing for “Scribner's Magazine” and for the newspaper feature syndicate run by the “Philadelphia Ledger.” He was a member of the Associated Press and the American Society of Newspaper Editors, and was an executive com­mitteeman of the Associated Press Managing Editors' Association. In the three years between 1915 and 1918 he was also secretary of the Philadelphia investment banking house of John L. Morrison & Company, Inc. Still earlier, in 1913 and 1914, he was engaged in financial work in New York and was secretary and fiscal agent of a Central American trust company. He served through two State administrations as a member of the Workmen's Compensation Board of Pennsylvania. He was also a mem­ber of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Penn­sylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution (Phila­delphia), the Order of Runnemede, the Fossils (New York), and the Philobiblion Club (Philadelphia).

1 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1100.

2 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 8.

3 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1099, 1101.

4 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1100, 1101.

5 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 9.

6 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 392.

7 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 9, 256.