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Arthur Stewart Morrison There is little that interests one more than to observe how different me begin and continue the duties of life. Some commence in hesitation and seem to hesitate at every obstacle they encounter. Others begin boldly, but after time show by some defect in execution, that they have not properly masters their tasks. Still others commence with a steady grasp of the situation, an show by their subsequent accomplishments that they have compassed the problem of life; to the last class success always comes and they are the men to leave behind them good names and large properties honorably won in life struggle. Though yet a young man, Arthur Stewart Morrison, farmer of Kellogg Township, Jasper County, has won a definite measure of success because he started right and continued along conservative and time-tried lines. He is native son of this County and has spent his life here, knowing that there would be no laudable excuse for seeking a better locality. He is the representative of a good family, being the son of James Gordon Morrison and wife, the latter known in her maidenhood as Minnie Perkins, and his birth occurred here on January 2, 1880. The father of the subject was born in the State of New York, the mother in Ireland. She came to America when young and married Mr. Morrison in the East, and they came to Jasper County, Iowa, about 1874 and settled on a farm which they developed, becoming very comfortably established and on which they spent the balance of their lives, the father dying June 6, 1904, and the mother in 1902. Seven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. James S. Morrison, of whom Arthur S., of this review, is the oldest; the others are George, May, Harry, Harriett, Edward and Don. The subject assisted with the general work about the home place as soon as he was old enough and attended the schools in his vicinity. He started in life for himself early, devoting his attention to farming and stock raising, which he has continued successfully to the present. He is the owner of a very desirable place, consisting of one hundred and thirty acres, of rich, slightly rolling, well improved ground which produces, under his able management, an abundance of general crops. He located on this farm in 1895. Mr. Morrison has remained single. Politically, he is a Democrat and he belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church. The Past and Present of Jasper County, Gen. James B. Weaver, Editor-In-Chief, 1912 B.F. Bowen Co., Indianapolis, IN, p. 829. |
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