Form Gazetteer Of Washington County, Vt. 1783-1899,
Compiled and Published by Hamilton Child,
Edited By William Adams.
The Syracuse Journal Company, Printers and Binders.
Syracuse, N. Y.; April, 1889.
STEPHEN MORRISON

"Stephen MORRISON was born in Windham, N. H., in 1788 or 1789. He left home at the age of eighteen years, and resided the ensuing seven years in Salem and Danvers, Mass. In 1812 he married Eurydice EARLE, of this town. About 1816 Mr. MORRISON bought the farm of Oliver EARLE, his wife's father, and removed to it from Concord, Essex county, and here he resided the ensuing forty-three years.

He then went to Chicago and resided with his daughter, Mrs. L. B. WALKER, several years, but eventually had a home with his son Stephen, in Saugatuck, Mich., where he died in November, 1884, aged ninety-seven years.

Mrs. MORRISON died October 27, 1867. Their children were Stephen A., a prominent business man of Saugatuck, Mich.; Samuel, who died in Topeka, Kan.; Cyrus, who died in childhood; Miles, who resides on the old homestead; Martha, who died, aged twenty-three years; and Myra (Mrs. L. B. WALKER), of Chicago. Miles MORRISON is a successful farmer, and has accumulated a fine estate in rearing live stock and dairying. He now has a fine flock of more than 300 sheep.

Mr. MORRISON is a staunch Democrat in a strong Republican town, but such is his popularity and ability that he has been selectman, lister, and justice of the peace many terms. He married, first, Miss Sabrina GALE, who was the mother of M. Eugene, now employed in the office of the C., R. I. & P. R. R. Co., in Chicago, and John GALE, of the firm of RAWSON & MORRISON, manufacturers of portable and stationary steam engines and machinery, and dealers in boilers, etc, He is also of the firms of MORRISON & FITTS, dry goods, and G. J. TOWNE & Co., grocers, of Barre. His second wife, Mary TAFT, is the mother of his children Maud M. and Merle M."