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EDGAR D. MORRISON
MORRISON, EDGAR
D., Oil Operator, Los Angeles, California,
was born in Washington County,
Ohio, on June 5, 1873. His father was James C. Morrison and his
mother Augusta (Moore)
Morrison.
Mr. Morrison
spent his boyhood in his native State, where he studied in the grammar schools
of Washington County.
When the Morrison family moved West about this time Mr. Morrison entered
the public schools of Nebraska,
where he studied for a brief period. He
went to a business college at Omaha,
Nebraska, for a year and mastered
stenography.
In 1890 he left
the business college and went to Gordon,
Nebraska, where he secured
employment in the Maverick Bank; remained with the same financial house when it
was changed to the First National Bank of Gordon. He was made Assistant Cashier, and served in
that office for a period of some seven years, becoming known as one of the
enterprising young men of that community.
In 1897 he was elected City Clerk of Gordon, in which office he served
for several terms. Later he was made
Treasurer of the Sheridan County (Nebraska)
Fair Association, which position he filled for a period of four years.
He was Clerk of
the School Board of Sheridan County at one time and rendered valuable services
to the educational circles of that community.
In 1901 he was
elected Treasurer of the Niobrara
Land and Sheep Company,
which was widely recognized as one of the largest organizations of its kind in
the State. Mr. Morrison shared
considerably in the development and success of that company.
Mr. Morrison left
Nebraska in the spring of 1903, and went to Boston, where he remained
for a brief period. During his stay in
the East he traveled considerably in the New England States, and after a few
months of this decided to return to the West.
He did not go back to Nebraska,
however, but sought new fields in California,
whither he moved in the fall of 1903. He
secured a one-half interest in a hotel at Santa
Barbara, and for one year managed and financed that concern. At the end of that time he opened a hotel of
his own in San Bernardino, California.
After continuing as a hotel man for a brief period Mr. Morrison moved to
Inglewood, near Los Angeles, where he engaged in the real
estate business for five years. He
became prominently associated among the business men of that place and was
elected City Clerk of the municipality.
He remained in that place and was numbered among the high-class business
men until 1909, when he went into his present oil business. In the early part of 1909 Mr. Morrison became
associated with the United Oil Company, of which he is Vice President and a
Director.
The phenomenal
growth of that corporation has been largely due to such men as Mr. Morrison,
who lent their force or capital or both in the financing of it. Since that time he has invested heavily in
the oil business in Southern California and
holds office or is a stockholder in some of the largest oil corporations.
He is Vice
President and a Director in the Rex Midway Oil Company and holds the same
positions with the Midnight Oil Company.
He possesses and
controls interests in several other similar organizations; finding himself well
occupied in handling his interests in that extensive field.
Aside from his extensive
holdings in oil and landed properties in California,
Mr. Morrison has mining interests in Colorado. He is recognized in the Southwest as a
progressive mining and oil operator, willing to follow any movement that is for
the upbuilding and progress of the Southwest.
He is a Knight of
the Round Table.
Transcribed
by Bill Simpkins.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 906, International
News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston,
Atlanta. 1913.
© 2012 Bill Simpkins.
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