Bio of MORRISON, Dr. Angus Washburn (b.1883), Hennepin Co., MN ========================================================================= ======================================================== EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical ======================================================== Vol III, pg 233-235 ANGUS WASHBURN MORRISON, M. D. Dr. Angus Washburn Morrison, a physician, with offices at No. 1009 Nicollet avenue in Minneapolis, was born in this city July 18, 1883. He was the only son of Clinton and Julia (Washburn) Morrison, natives of Maine and Massachusetts, respectively. The grandparents in the paternal line were Dorilus and Harriet Putnam (Whitmore) Morrison, natives of Maine and representatives of old New England families. Remov­ing westward Mr. Morrison served as the first mayor of Minneapolis and in his administrative policy established precedents, which have since been wisely followed to the benefit of the city. It was in 1855, when his son, Clinton, was but thirteen years of age, that the family home was established at St. Anthony Falls, on the banks of the upper Mississippi, and for a few years Clinton Morrison attended the old Union school, then occupying the present site of the city hall and courthouse. He afterward completed his education in Racine, Wisconsin, but at an early age he started out in the business world under the guidance of his father. When Clinton Morrison attained his majority he joined his brother, George H. Morrison, in the business of outfitting lumbermen and ultimately they took up pine lands, mills and lumber. They operated a water power sawmill on the platform of the Falls and conducted a lumberyard in the lower part of the city, carrying on an extensive and profitable business until the death of George H. Morrison in 1882, after which Clinton Morrison turned his attention to the extensive business interests of his father and assisted in their management. About this time he and his father took over much of the stock of the Minneapolis Harvester Works, which seemed to be operating at a loss. Upon the advice of Clinton Morrison the new company adopted the twine binder invented by Mr. Appleby, who was connected with the Harvester Works and this invention proved to be very successful. In 1892 the business was sold to the Walter A. Wood Harvester Company, organized in St. Paul. Mr. Morrison like­wise became active in connection with the management and control of the Farmers & Mechanics Savings Bank of Minneapolis, of which he was elected president in 1876, carrying the institution safely through several widespread financial panics that proved its soundness and its strength. It was during the presidency of Mr. Morrison that the bank erected a handsome structure on Fourth street, near First avenue South. In connection with his father he was also engaged in the construction of the Northern Pacific Railroad and he had extensive private interests, which he most wisely managed. He served as president of the Great Western Elevator Company, the Northwestern Knitting Company and the North American Telegraph Company and was vice presi­dent of the North Star Woolen Mills Company. Thus his business affairs constantly expanded and developed until he became an outstanding figure on the stage of com­mercial enterprise. Clinton Morrison was a member of the Church of the Redeemer, Universalist, and he belonged to the Minneapolis Club. He was always intensely interested in the advancement of his home city and gave hearty cooperation to every plan and project of practical benefit in its upbuilding. Charity and benevolence were among his marked characteristics and the truly deserving never sought his aid in vain. "One incident that brought him into greatest prominence here and made him known in artistic circles abroad was his gift of the site for the new Minneapolis Art Museum, which is now in course of construction. With his usual modesty he estimated the value of the property he gave for this purpose at two hundred thousand dollars, when it was worth at least fifty thousand more. It was his father's renowned residence known as 'Villa Rosa,' which has long been famous in local history and in which many notable men of the country have been entertained. The tract comprises ten acres and is admirably located for the new use to which it is to be devoted. Mr. Morrison conveyed this property to the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, as he stated in his letter making the tender, 'without cost or incumbrance, to be a memorial to my late father, Dorilus Morrison, the first mayor of Minneapolis, with the simple condition that it become one of the parks of the city, to be used only for the erection and maintenance thereon of such a museum.' It will be a fine memorial to the first mayor of the city, but it will be no less an enduring monument of the filial affection, large-hearted generosity and elevated public spirit of his son, suggesting always the high traits of character of both and indicating in a substantial manner the value of their citizenship." In February, 1873, Clinton Morrison was married to Miss Julia Kellogg Washbum, a daughter of Nehemiah and Martha (Parmelee) Washburn. Mrs. Morrison passed away in 1883, while the death of Mr. Morrison occurred March 11, 1913, when he had passed the seventy-first milestone on life's journey. Their children were: Dr. Morrison of this review; and Ethel, the deceased wife of John R. Van Derlip, a lawyer of Minneapolis. Angus Washburn Morrison pursued his education in the public schools of his native city and in the Hotchkiss school of Lakeville, Connecticut, from which he was graduated in 1902. He next entered Yale University and completed his literary course in 1906, at which time the Bachelor of Arts degree was conferred upon him. His professional training was received in the Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore, Mary land, and in 1910 he gained his M. D. degree. He took his interneship in the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, and then went abroad, spending the years 1911 and 1912 in study in Germany, France and England, where he pursued various postgraduate courses, coming into active connection with the most advanced and scientific methods of the most eminent physicians and surgeons of the old world. With his return to Minneapolis in 1912 Dr. Morrison opened an office and has since engaged in practice here. His progress has been continuous and his experience has covered a broad field, making him one of the eminent physicians of the city. He is one of the founders of the Nicollet Clinic and also assistant professor of nervous and mental diseases at the University of Minnesota. He is likewise chief attending neurol­ogist at the Minneapolis General Hospital, consulting neurologist at the Shriners Hospital, and a member of the staffs of the Northwestern and St. Mary's hospitals, and has specialized in neurology, developing eminent skill in that field of labor. Dr. Morrison entered upon active service in the World war in December, 1917, as a captain in the Medical Corps and was stationed at Allerey, France, in connection with the American Expeditionary Forces. He acted as neurologist at Base Hospital, No. 26, and was consultant neuro-psychiatrist at Hospital Center, Allerey, France. In March, 1919, he was mustered out at Fort Snelling and resumed private practice in Minneapolis. On the 23d of June, 1914, Dr. Morrison was married to Miss Helen Truesdale, a daughter of Hiram C. and Martha (Langdon) Truesdale of this city. Dr. and Mrs. Morrison have four children: Clinton, Anne, Angus and John. Dr. Morrison belongs to several Greek letter fraternities, including Delta Kappa Epsilon, Nu Sigma Nu, Alpha Omega Alpha and Phi Beta Kappa. He also has mem­bership in the Minikahda Club, the Minneapolis Club, the Woodhill Country Club, and the University Club of St. Paul. He is a trustee of the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, and is interested in all those forces which contribute to the cultural advance­ment and upbuilding of the city. In 1915 Dr. Morrison and his sister, Mrs. Van Derlip, gave the Julia Morrison Memorial building to the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, for the housing of the Minneapolis School of Art. This building, so carefully appointed and conveniently arranged, was given as a memorial to their mother. Along strictly professional lines his membership connection is with the Hennepin County Medical Society, the Minnesota State Medical Association, the Southern Minnesota Medical Society, the American Medical Association, the Minnesota Neurological Society, the Minnesota Pathological Society, the Central Neuro-psychiatric Society, the American Psychiatric Association and the American Neurological Association.