From History of Whiteside County, by Bent-Wilson: (After beating out the town of Unionville for the location of the present C. & N.W.R.R. the proprietors, including a Mr. VanEpps and Mr. Lyman Johnson, the railroad contractor and one of the purchasers of the land, established the location of the railway station where it now is.) After the surveyor's chain had been run through the hazel brush and scrub oaks, the town, to spring up within the survey, was named "Morrison" by Mr. Johnson in honor of Mr. Charles Morrison, a wealthy merchant of New York, and friend of Mr. W. Van Epps. Doubtless Mr. Morrison would have given substantial aid to the town but for the fact that business reverses swept his property away and left him a poor man. Dave Sarles bob@chartnoise.com wrote: > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Morrison, Thornton, Northrup, > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Zh.2ADE/1852 > > Message Board Post: > > Can anyone tell me how Morrison came to be named Morrison....Was there an early settler, or key indivdual named Morrison? > > Thanks > Bob Morrison > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237