DORILUS MORRISON:
An Inventory of His Family Papers at the Minnesota Historical Society
Manuscripts Collection
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OVERVIEW
| Creator: | Morrison, Dorilus, 1814-1897, creator. | |
| Title: | Dorilus Morrison and family papers. | |
| Dates: | 1706-1913. | |
| Language: | Materials in English. | |
| Abstract: | Letters, deeds, leases, financial records, clippings, genealogical data, and other papers of Morrison, a Minneapolis businessman, mayor (1867), and state senator (1864-1865), of his wife, Harriet K. Whitmore, and of other family members. | |
| Quantity: | 1.25 cubic feet (1 box; 4 oversize items; 4 folders in Reserve). | |
| Location: | See Detailed Description for shelf locations. |
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Dorilus Morrison, a pioneer Minneapolis businessman, was born in Livermore, Maine in 1814. He came to Minnesota in 1854, spending one year in Stillwater and then residing in Minneapolis until he died in 1897. He married Harriet K. Whitmore in 1840. Their children were Clinton, George, and Grace. His second wife was Abby C. Clagstone. His son Clinton married Julia K. Washburn.
Morrison was interested in a number of enterprises in Minneapolis: waterpower, railroads, and the manufacture of cotton, farm machinery and lumber. He was interested in government too, serving as the first mayor of Minneapolis in 1867 and as state senator in 1864-1865.
SCOPE AND CONTENTS
The papers document Morrison's activities in Minneapolis, including his Minnesota land purchases (1854), incorporation of the Minneapolis Mill Company (1856) to develop water power at the Falls of St. Anthony, subsequent water power leases, Sioux and Chippewa half-breed scrip and its use in pine land acquisition and logging (1860s), the Minneapolis Harvester Works (1860s), Minneapolis real estate (1870s), his cotton, flouring and saw mills at the Falls of St. Anthony in Minneapolis (1870s), the Upper Mississippi Navigation Company, the Consolidated Elevator Company in Duluth, and his political activities.
Letters and legal and financial papers (1706-1844) also provide data on the Morrison and Whitmore families in Maine. The Whitmore family correspondence from Massachusetts and Maine concerns land transfers, taxation, the settlement of estates, the Massachusetts militia, commerce and trade, and family history, including a Whitmore family genealogy (January 25, 1715). Papers of his son Clinton include data on the property of his wife and Clinton's gifts (1900s-1910s) to the city of Minneapolis.
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Restrictions:
Access to and use of reserve material requires the curator's permission.
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Dorilus Morrison and Family Papers. Minnesota Historical Society.
See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.
Accession Information:
Accession number: 8614
Processing Information:
Volume 1, a book of autographs, was dismantled and placed in the reserve collection.
Catalog ID number: 990017319130104294
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
| 131.A.3.7B | Genealogical data, undated. | ||||||||||
| News clippings, undated, 1877, 1913. | |||||||||||
| Includes obituary of Clinton Morrison, son of Dorilus, and information on pine land investigations, the water power of Maine, and politics. | |||||||||||
| Correspondence, undated, 1706-1913. 23 folders. | |||||||||||
| Volume 2. Ethel Morrison's Sayings and Doings, 1878-1882. | |||||||||||
| Progress in vocabulary, pronunciation, and education; contains comments on social events and on travels of the family. | |||||||||||
| Volume 3. Julia K. Morrison's notebook, 1870-1873. | |||||||||||
| Contains notes on chemistry lectures and on Charles V of Spain; the back of the volume contains Miss Washburn's correspondence (1871-1873) regarding friendships, her property and her marriage to Clinton Morrison. | |||||||||||
| Volume 4. Julia K. Morrison's notebook, 1875-1876. | |||||||||||
| Contains extracts from literature and a diary (1875-1876) regarding social events, reading and study, travel, observations on religion and self-improvement, and descriptions of cabinet wives and their homes and furnishings (Mmes. Williams, Delano, Fish, Robeson, Belknap, and Blaine. | |||||||||||
| Volume 5. Julia K. Morrison's notebook, 1871-1880. | |||||||||||
| Contains lists of books read (1871-1880) and diary entries (1876-1877) regarding Ethel's christening and growth, observations on art and literature and social events; describes a visit with President and Mrs. Hayes at the home of mutual friends (April 21-July 21). | |||||||||||
| Volume 6. Ethel Morrison Van Derlip's diary, April 12-July 21, 1899. | |||||||||||
| Kept on a trip to China and Japan; contains descriptions of the countryside, the people, temples, shops, city streets, hotels, meetings with European and American diplomats, arts, and schools. | |||||||||||
| Volume 7. Clinton Morrison's code book, undated. | |||||||||||
| Volume 8. Twin City Rapid Transit Company resolutions on the death of Clinton Morrison, 1913. | |||||||||||
| Volume 9. Whitmore account book, January 24, 1824-October 4, 1825. | |||||||||||
| Also contains certificates of marriage signed by Joel Whitmore as Justice of the Peace (1829-1833). | |||||||||||
| Volume 10. Joel Whitmore's day book [ledger], 1824-1830. | |||||||||||
| Volume 11. Joel Whitmore's record book, May 9, 1829-August 10, 1833. | |||||||||||
| Documents his work as Justice of the Peace for Harrison, Cumberland County, Maine. | |||||||||||
| Volume 12. Joel Whitmore's account book, October 14, 1835-December 19, 1837. | |||||||||||
| 105.F.4.1 | Oversize items: | ||||||||||
| Appointment certificate of Clinton Morrison as First Lieutenant in the Thirtieth Regiment of State Militia, August 3, 1863. | |||||||||||
| Signed by Governor Henry A. Swift. | |||||||||||
| Bond of Chester D. Davison, United States Surveyor General, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 17, 1869. | |||||||||||
| Signed by Dorilus Morrison and others. | |||||||||||
| Membership certificate of Clinton Morrison in the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States, December 15, 1907. | |||||||||||
| Membership certificate of Clinton Morrison in the Minnesota Historical Society, January 13, 1908. | |||||||||||
| Reserve 139 | Reserve items, 4 folders: | ||||||||||
| Autographs, undated. 15 items. | |||||||||||
| Includes autographs for John Wilkes Booth (possibly not authentic), Ole Bull, Salmon P. Chase, Caroline H. Dall, Charles W [?] Eliot, Horace Greeley (2), Joseph Jefferson (2), R.J. Lane, Henry W. Longfellow, Erminia Rudersduff, John P. Saxe, Charles Sumner, and Bayard Taylor. | |||||||||||
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| Correspondence and autographs, undated, 1841-1851. 12 items. | |||||||||||
| Includes Edward Everett (1847, ALS), James T. Fields (undated, ALS), James Gibson (1851, ALS), Katharine Lawrence (undated, ALS), Andreas [?] Norton (1851, ALS), Wendell Phillips (undated, ALS), Mr. Rohrer [?] (undated, ALS), and William H. Seward (1847, ALS), Catharine N. Sinclair (undated, ALS), Joseph D. Storey (1842, ALS), Julia Marlowe Taber (undated, ADS). | |||||||||||
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| Correspondence and autographs, 1852-1874. 14 items. | |||||||||||
| Includes George S [?] Boutwell (1867, ALS), Celia Burleigh (1874, ADS), W. Cleflin (1869, ALS), Jay Gould (1870, ALS), Horace Greeley (1872, ALS, with envelope), Edward E. Hale (1874, ALS), T.W. Higginson (1857, ALS), J.G. Holland (1871, ALS), Oliver Wendell Holmes (1859, autograph only), Julia Ward Howe (1874, ALS), Abraham Lincoln (1860, facsimile of ALS), Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1873, ALS), J.G. Poupray [?] (1852, ALS), and George Vanderhoft (1869, ALS). | |||||||||||
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| Correspondence and autographs, 1875-1882. 17 items. | |||||||||||
| Includes T.A. Bridgman (1876, ALS), Anna Louise Cary (1881, ADS), Edward H. Dahle (1881, ALS), S. Grove (1878, ALS), H.H. (1881, autograph poem signed), Frederic H. Hedge (1877, ALS), William Dean Howells (1879, ALS), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1874, ALS and 1882, facsimile of ALS), Julia Morrison (1879, ADS), C.E. Norton (1882, signed memorandum), Adelina Patti (1882, autograph only), Adelaide Phillips (1881, autograph only), and Count Remény (1882, autograph only), Friedereich Trane [?] (1882, ALS), James H. Tuttle (1881, ALS), and Camilla Urso (1882, autograph only). | |||||||||||
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CATALOG HEADINGS
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
- Topics:
- Agricultural machinery.
- Chippewa half-breed scrip.
- Cotton manufacture -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.
- Flour mills -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.
- Industries -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.
- Land use -- Registration and transfer -- Massachusetts.
- Land use -- Registration and transfer -- Minnesota.
- Lumbering -- Maine.
- Lumbering -- Minnesota.
- Manufactures -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.
- Parks -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.
- Real property -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.
- Sioux half-breed scrip.
- Steam-navigation -- Mississippi River.
- Persons:
- Booth, John Wilkes, 1838-1865.
- Boynton, Gorham L.
- Bradley, Daniel W.
- Bridgman, T. A.
- Bull, Ole, 1810-1880.
- Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873.
- Claflin, W.
- Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth), 1842-1932.
- Donnelly, Ignatius, 1831-1901.
- Eaton, Wyatt.
- Elliott, Charles W.
- Everett, Edward, 1794-1865.
- Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881.
- Forrest, Catherine Norton Sinclair, 1817-1891.
- Gibson, James.
- Gould, Jay, 1836-1892.
- Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872.
- Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909.
- Healy, G. P. A. (George Peter Alexander), 1813-1894.
- Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911.
- Holland, J. G. (Josiah Gilbert), 1819-1881.
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894.
- Houston, Sam, 1793-1863.
- Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910.
- Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920.
- Jefferson, Joseph, 1829-1905.
- King, William Smith, 1828-1900.
- Lawrence, Katharine.
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882.
- Lowry, Thomas, 1843-1909.
- Marlowe, Julia, 1865-1950.
- Morrison family.
- Morrison, Clinton, 1842-1913.
- Morrison, Julia K. Washburn, 1876-
- Norton, Andrew.
- Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908.
- Patti, Adelina, 1843-1919.
- Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884.
- Rand, Alonzo.
- Remény, Count.
- Seward, William H. (William Henry), 1801-1872.
- Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874.
- Taylor, Bayard, 1825-1878.
- Tuttle, James Harvey, 1824-1903.
- Van Derlip, Ethel Morrison, 1876-
- Vanderhoft, George.
- Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, 1844-1911.
- Washburn family.
- Washburn, William D. (William Drew), 1831-1912.
- Whipple, Henry Benjamin, 1822-1901.
- White, E. V.
- Whitmore, Joel.
- Whitmore family.
- Woodman, Cyrus.
- Organizations:
- Consolidated Elevator Company.
- First National Hotel (Minneapolis, Minn.).
- Minneapolis Harvester Works.
- Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts.
- Upper Mississippi Navigation Company (Minneapolis, Minn.).
- Places:
- Maine.
- Massachusetts.
- Mississippi River -- Power utilization.
- Document Types:
- Diaries.
- Genealogies.
- Occupations:
- Businessmen -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.
- Legislators -- Minnesota.
- Mayors -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.
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