William S. Morrison and Alice E. Brown

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Husband William S. Morrison ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 7 Sep 1866 - Beaver Co, PA 3
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         Father: George W. Morrison (1838-1917) 3 4 5
         Mother: Mary E. Sturgeon (      -1924) 1 2 3

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       Marriage: 1896 6

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Wife Alice E. Brown ^{2 6}

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           Born:  - Ohio
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         Father: Rev. Walter Brown (      -      ) 6 7
         Mother: Amanda Agnew (      -      ) 6 8

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General Notes: Husband - William S. Morrison

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He received his elementary education in the public schools of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, and his higher academic education in Geneva College, from which he was graduated in 1886 with the degree of Bachelor of Science. Subsequent to graduation from Geneva, he studied law partly in the office of the well-known attorney and judge, Henry Hice, of Beaver, and partly in the law school of the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia. In 1893 he was admitted to the bar and for two years thereafter practiced in Beaver and Beaver Falls, in the partnership of Hice, Morrison & Hice, thereafter, until 1908, alone in Beaver Falls. In 1908 he formed a partnership with Agnew Hice, Charles R. May and F. E. Reader, the firm name being Hice, Morrison, Reader & May; M. Reader retiring later when he became a judge of Beaver County. Mr. Morrison continued with the firm, there was a new partner, however-Thompson Bradshaw, who entered the firm on January 1, 1923. The partnership was known as Hice, Morrison, May & Bradshaw, and it maintained offices in the Beaver Trust Building, in Beaver.
Mr. Morrison, a Republican all his life, was a member of the Beaver School Board from 1905 to 1909, and he was a State representative from 1909 to 1911. During the World War he served on various boards and committees in Beaver and was a "four-minute" speaker. He was a director in the Beaver County Trust Company, of New Brighton, and for many years was vice-president of the Federal Title and Trust Company of Beaver Falls, also in the county.
Mr. Morrison was a member of the American Bar Association, the Pennsylvania State Bar Association, the Beaver Valley Country Club, the Union Club, of Pittsburgh, the Beaver County Historical Society, the Beaver Falls Chamber of Commerce; a trustee of the Beaver County Children's Home; president of the Beaver Free Library Association, which he headed from its formation; and was secretary of the board of trustees of his church, the Presbyterian.

1 Editor, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 700.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 258.

3 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 220.

4 Editor, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 699.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 257.

6 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 221.

7 Editor, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 616.

8 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 126.