Background
Bernice Morrison was born in Saint Louis, Missouri to William M. Morrison and Sara Catherine "Kate" Swinney (The famous Paddle Wheeler "Kate Swinney" was named after her).
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Her name lives on in central Missouri because in 1874 she pledged $100,000 to Carr Waller Pritchett to build a world class telescope in Glasgow at the Pritchett Institute. The telescope and the Morrison Observatory were moved to nearby Fayette, Missouri during the early part of the 1930s. lieutenant stands there today as one of Central Missouri"s hidden treasures as a fully functional piece of science history operated by Central Methodist University.
Also of some interest are her memoirs entitled Plantation Life in Missouri, which expose details of a mostly forgotten period of Missouri history.
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1947 (aged 90) -
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United States