Son of Alexander & Sarah Towner Morrison, husb of Lura Coston.
The territory now known as Grant Township (Cass County Iowa) constituted a part of what was called Lura Township, one of the seven original subdivisions of the county, named after the wife of the pioneer, Dr. Gershom S. Morrison. In 1870, Grant Township had an election at Morrison's School house, under the act making the civil and congressional townships uniform. The first settlers found little timber, Morrison's grove and a smaller one south of Anita, Being the only natural groves. Dr. G. S. Morrison was the pioneer of the northeastern portion of Cass County, coming from Bureau County, Illinois, and entered a large tract of land about a mile southeast of where Anita now stands. Upon it he erected a large log cabin, in which he lived. He dropped his professional practice almost entirely and did what he could to develop the country, building roads and bridges. They staked out a road and bridged the stream for a distance of forty miles, from Dalmanutha, Guthrie County, to the Nishnabotna River, about two miles from Indiantown. In May, 1855, the Western Stage Company put a line of four-horse coaches from Des Moines to Council Bluffs, with Morrison's Station, a noted stop on the route as it had become well known from one side of the state to the other.
The territory now known as Grant Township (Cass County Iowa) constituted a part of what was called Lura Township, one of the seven original subdivisions of the county, named after the wife of the pioneer, Dr. Gershom S. Morrison. In 1870, Grant Township had an election at Morrison's School house, under the act making the civil and congressional townships uniform. The first settlers found little timber, Morrison's grove and a smaller one south of Anita, Being the only natural groves. Dr. G. S. Morrison was the pioneer of the northeastern portion of Cass County, coming from Bureau County, Illinois, and entered a large tract of land about a mile southeast of where Anita now stands. Upon it he erected a large log cabin, in which he lived. He dropped his professional practice almost entirely and did what he could to develop the country, building roads and bridges. They staked out a road and bridged the stream for a distance of forty miles, from Dalmanutha, Guthrie County, to the Nishnabotna River, about two miles from Indiantown. In May, 1855, the Western Stage Company put a line of four-horse coaches from Des Moines to Council Bluffs, with Morrison's Station, a noted stop on the route as it had become well known from one side of the state to the other.
Son of Alexander & Sarah Towner Morrison, husb of Lura Coston.
The territory now known as Grant Township (Cass County Iowa) constituted a part of what was called Lura Township, one of the seven original subdivisions of the county, named after the wife of the pioneer, Dr. Gershom S. Morrison. In 1870, Grant Township had an election at Morrison's School house, under the act making the civil and congressional townships uniform. The first settlers found little timber, Morrison's grove and a smaller one south of Anita, Being the only natural groves. Dr. G. S. Morrison was the pioneer of the northeastern portion of Cass County, coming from Bureau County, Illinois, and entered a large tract of land about a mile southeast of where Anita now stands. Upon it he erected a large log cabin, in which he lived. He dropped his professional practice almost entirely and did what he could to develop the country, building roads and bridges. They staked out a road and bridged the stream for a distance of forty miles, from Dalmanutha, Guthrie County, to the Nishnabotna River, about two miles from Indiantown. In May, 1855, the Western Stage Company put a line of four-horse coaches from Des Moines to Council Bluffs, with Morrison's Station, a noted stop on the route as it had become well known from one side of the state to the other.
The territory now known as Grant Township (Cass County Iowa) constituted a part of what was called Lura Township, one of the seven original subdivisions of the county, named after the wife of the pioneer, Dr. Gershom S. Morrison. In 1870, Grant Township had an election at Morrison's School house, under the act making the civil and congressional townships uniform. The first settlers found little timber, Morrison's grove and a smaller one south of Anita, Being the only natural groves. Dr. G. S. Morrison was the pioneer of the northeastern portion of Cass County, coming from Bureau County, Illinois, and entered a large tract of land about a mile southeast of where Anita now stands. Upon it he erected a large log cabin, in which he lived. He dropped his professional practice almost entirely and did what he could to develop the country, building roads and bridges. They staked out a road and bridged the stream for a distance of forty miles, from Dalmanutha, Guthrie County, to the Nishnabotna River, about two miles from Indiantown. In May, 1855, the Western Stage Company put a line of four-horse coaches from Des Moines to Council Bluffs, with Morrison's Station, a noted stop on the route as it had become well known from one side of the state to the other.
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