Background
Morrison, John Irwin, , Pennsylvania 1806 1882 Male Educator educator, son of Robert and Ann (Irwin) Morrison, was born near Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pa.
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Education
Early in April 1825 he was placed in charge of the Salem Grammar School which he conducted successfully until September 1827, when he resigned to enter Miami University at Oxford, Ohio.
With two years' advanced credit, he fulfilled the requirements of the junior and senior years in one year and received the degree of A. B. in 1828.
Immediately after graduation he returned to Salem, Ind. , to take charge of the first Washington County Seminary, in the fall of 1828.
With her assistance he established in 1835 the Salem Female Institute, which he conducted as a private venture until 1839, when he was elected state representative.
Career
Of his boyhood little is known except that he received instruction from local clergymen.
Three years later he founded, with J. F. Baird, the Salem Locomotive, which was short-lived.
[R. G. Boone, A Hist.
of Educ.
in Ind. (1892); Annie Morrison Coffin, "John Irwin Morrison and the Washington County Seminary, " Ind.
Mag.
of Hist. , June 1926; Logan Esarey, A Hist.
of Ind. (2 vols. , 1915); J. H. Smart, ed. , The Ind.
Schools and the Men who have Worked in Them (1876); T. A. Wylie, ed. , Ind.
Univ. , its Hist.
from 1820, when Founded, to 1890 (1890); Indianapolis Jour. , July 18, 1882. ]
Politics
In 1847 he purchased the Washington Republican, which he renamed the Washington Democrat (now the Salem Democrat).
Connections
In 1824 he moved with his parents to Washington County, Ind. , where he soon found employment as a teacher at Walnut Ridge.
- married:
- Catherine
- Daughter:
- Catherine
In 1832 he married one of his former pupils, who had just returned from the Friends' School at Westtown, Pa., Catherine Morris, daughter of Benoni and Rebecca (Trueblood) Morris.
In 1832 he married one of his former pupils, who had just returned from the Friends' School at Westtown, Pa., Catherine Morris, daughter of Benoni and Rebecca (Trueblood) Morris.
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Republican Democrat