Illinois:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William 
Henry Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, 
Chicago, 1882.  Cass County.

REV. C.R. MORRISON, M.E. minister; Bluff Springs; was born 
in Scott County, Ill., Nov. 27, 1852; son of Robert and 
Alvira A. (Gillham) Morrison.  Robert Morrison is a native 
of Virginia; born Dec. 12, 1811; he is a farmer by 
occupation, and resides in Fremont County, Ia.; his wife 
was born in what is now Scott County, Ill., in May, 1821, 
and was the first female white child born in that county; 
of their eleven children, five are deceased.  Mr. Morrison 
received his primary education in the country schools; in 
1871, he entered a preparatory school in Jacksonville, 
Ill., and in 1873, entered the Illinois College in that 
place, where he graduated in 1878, being valedictorian of 
the graduating class.  He afterward spent one year in the 
Theological Seminary at Evanston, Ill.  He began his career 
as a minister of the M.E. Church, in the Waverly Circuit, 
Morgan County, Ill., and has ever since been a minister of 
the gospel.  In Jacksonville, Ill., Feb. 2, 1882, he 
married Margaret Rees, a native of Morgan County, Ill., 
born June 2, 1863, daughter of Dr. Edwin and Margaret Rees; 
he, a native of Pennsylvania, born in 1810; she, born near 
Jacksonville, Ill., in 1828.  Mrs. Morrison was a graduate 
of the Illinois Female College class of 1881.  Mr. Morrison 
is a Republican.

Morrison Gillham Rees 
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Scott-IL VA Fremont-IA Morgan-IL PA