Levi Morrison, Civil War Soldier

 

Levi Morrison was in Company H, Fifty-Fifth Regiment Militia Infantry.  The regiment mustered in June 27 - July 11, 1863 and discharged July 18, and Aug. 26, 1863. [Samuel P. Bates, Vol. 5, p. 1304].  His uncle Stephen Morrison was also in the regiment, but in a different company.

 

�History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania: Its Past and Present� (Brown, Rank, and Co., Chicago, 1888:

LEVI MORRISON

LEVI MORRISON Hon. Levi Morrison, post-office Sheakleyville , Penn., is a son of Daniel and Julia Ann (Snyder) Morrison, the latter a daughter of Joshua Snyder, of Trumbull County , Ohio. Daniel Morrison, the father of our subject, was a native of Butler County, Penn.  In 1835 he came to Mercer County, and located in the southeast part of Sandy Creek, and purchased a farm of fifty acres.  He was twice married.  By his first wife he had eight children: Levi, Sarah Ann (deceased), Eleanor, Mrs. J. B. Yard, of Hubbard, Ohio; Joseph (deceased), Aseneth (deceased), Dillon P., manufacturer of staves, West Virginia; Julie E., wife of Alpheus Allen, of Hubbard, Ohio; Fannie, Mrs. Sylvester English, of Cochranton, Penn.  Mrs. Morrison died in 1864.  His second wife was Mrs. Maggie Hamilton, of Sheakleyville, Penn., by whom he had two children: Maggie C. and Phoebe C.  He died in 1884.  His widow survives him, and lives in Sheakleyville, Penn.  Our subject was born August 8, 1839, in Sandy Creek, and was educated at the common schools, completing his education at the Sheakleyville High-school.  In 1860 he engaged in the drug and grocery business at Sheakleyville, in which he was engaged for fifteen years.  In 1870, in connection with his brother-in-law, W. P. Couse, he engaged in the manufacture of shingles and staves, manufacturing the first sawed staves in this section of the country, and is at present one of the firm Morrison & Couse, operating extensively in this line at Elizabeth, Wirt Co., W. Va.  Mr. Morrison takes an active interest in the public affairs of his county and borough, having served as school director for many years, treasurer, township clerk, etc., and in 1882 was a member of the State Legislature, being the only Republican elected from the county that year.  Mr. Morrison is also a prominent member of the Baptist Church of Sheakleyville; was elected clerk in 1868, which office he has continued to fill until the present time.  In 1885 he was elected moderator of the French Creek Baptist Association, held at Greenville , Penn.  Politically he is a Republican.  He was married May 28, 1861, to Miss Caroline S., daughter of Isaac Phillips, of Sheakleyville, and by this union they have had three children:  John L., Anna (who died at the age of ten, in 1884) and Nellie.  In 1863 Mr. Morrison enlisted in Company H, Fifty-fifth Pennsylvania Militia, which was transferred to the United States service.  Our subject is a member of the G. A. R., Elijah Thompson Post, of Sheakleyville , Penn., also of the Royal Arcanum, French Creek Council 328, of Meadville, Penn.

 

�Smull's Legislative Hand Book and Manual of the State of Pennsylvania� by Pennsylvania's General Assembly:

 

[p. 1176]  Levi Morrison, Mercer County, was born in Sandy Creek Township, that county; served in the War of the Rebellion and is a member of G. A. R.; has represented the agricultural interests of Pennsylvania at two sessions of the National Farmers' Congress; is interested in the publication of Advance Argus at Greenville, PA.; was a member of the house of Representatives in 1883 and was again elected in November 1898.