Biography

07/01/1840 - 09/19/1919

MORRISON, William P., a Representative from Lawrence County; born, July 1, 1840 in Parker City, Armstrong County, Pa.; corporal, Company A, 55th Regiment, Pennsylvania Emergency Militia (1863, Civil War); engaged, wool business; engaged, oil business; engaged, grocery business; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in a Special Election in March of 1885 to serve the remaining term; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1887 term; reelected as a Republican to House for the 1889 and 1891 terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1893 term; elected, alderman, New Castle; died, September 19, 1919 in New Castle, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania; interred, Greenwood Cemetery, New Castle, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania.