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ALEXANDER
F. MORRISON
Alexander
F. Morrison, son of Archibald and Ellen (Hart), was born at Weymouth,
Massachusetts, February 22, 1856; died on November 13, 1921.
After attending the public schools
of San Francisco, California, he graduated from the University of California in
1878 with the A.B. degree, and from Hastings College of Law, San Francisco, in
1881 with the LL.B. degree, and was admitted to the California bar in the same
year. He married May Benton Treat on April 27, 1893.
Mr. Morrison began the practice of
law at San Francisco, California, in association with the firm of Cope and
Boyd, and later he formed a partnership with Thomas V. O’Brien under the firm
name of O’Brien & Morrison. After forty years of practice he closed his
career as a member of the firm of Morrison, Dunne & Brobeck.
His hobby being the collection of
books, he left a private library of over fifteen thousand volumes. This
library, with an endowment reading room known as the Morrison Memorial Library
Room, was presented to the University of California by Mrs. Morrison following the death of her husband.
Mr. Morrison was a member of the
American, California Alumni Association (president), American Historical
Association; Pacific Coast Historical Society, National Geographic Society; and
the following clubs: Pacific-Union, Bohemian, University, Chit Chat,
Commercial, and Press, all of San Francisco.
Transcribed By: Cecelia M. Setty.
Source: “Eminent Californians 1953”,
by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Page 57, C. W. Taylor
Publ., Palo Alto, California, 1953.
© 2013 Cecelia M. Setty.
San Francisco County Biographies