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From Past and present of Nodaway County, Missouri (1910), The history of Nodaway county, Missouri, containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, etc., biographical sketches of its citizens (1882)
JOSEPH B. MORRISON, M. D., is a native of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and was born January 18, 1835. His father, Alexander W. Morrison, was a native of Pennsylvania, and a prominent farmer of the county. *His mother's maiden name was Margaret M. Calmant, both being of Scotch ancestry. The subject of this memoir was educated at private schools — Unionville Academy, Chester Count) Pennsylvania, Newark Academy, Delaware, and Coatesville Academy, Chester County, Pennsylvania. He commenced the study of medicine with Dr. James P. Andrews, of Oak Hill, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and attended lectures at the Jefferson Medical College, from which institution he was graduated March 9, 1861. He began practicing medicine in his native county, and in June, 1862, after a thorough examination, he was appointed Acting Assistant Surgeon in the United States army, and was stationed at Columbian College Hospital at Washington. He was afterwards commissioned Assistant Surgeon of United States Volunteers, and in June, of 1863, was promoted by President Lincoln, and was sent by the medical director to Folly Island, near Charleston, and was made Surgeon-in-Chief of Vogdes' division. The following April he came up to Virginia with the division, and was in the Army of the James until the close of the war. He was at Cold Harbor with the Eighteenth Corps, and was in front of Petersburg and at the battle of Fort Harrison, September 29, 1864, and was again at Petersburg at the time of its capture. He was Medical Director of the Twenty-fourth Corps, and continued in this position until the corps was disbanded, in July, 1865. Dr. Morrison was then appointed Surgeon-in-Chief of the District of Southwest Virginia, where he remained until February 2, 1866, when he was honorably discharged. After the war he located in New York City, and in 1873 he settled in Maryville, where he has followed his chosen avocation, with a good degree of success. He is a close student, and keeps thoroughly posted in matters pertaining to his profession, as well as the current topics of the day, and as a medical practitioner ranks with the foremost in Northwestern Missouri. Politically he is a Republican, and in his religious preferences he is a Presbyterian, the faith of his father. He is a member of the Loyal Legion of the United States, also a Royal Arch Mason, and is a member of St. Joseph Commandery, Nodaway Chapter and Nodaway Lodge. Dr. Morrison was married July 25, 1876, to Miss Belle Panky, a native of Fayette, Howard County, Missouri, a daughter of Thomas A. Pankey. They have one daughter, Grace L., and a son, Paul.
As printed in The history of Nodaway county, Missouri, containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, etc., biographical sketches of its citizens (1882). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
JOSEPH B. MORRISON, M. D.
The name of Dr. Joseph B. Morrison needs no introduction to the people of Nodaway county where he has long labored in behalf of suffering humanity in one of the most trying of professions and where his name has long been a household word, consequently any laudation of his attributes on the part of the biographer would be incongruous at this time. He is now living in honorable retirement in Maryville. He was born at Coleraine, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, January 18. 1835. Pie spent his boyhood on the home farm, remaining there until he was twenty-one years old. He received a good common school education, also went to Newark Academy, Newark, Delaware, PTiionville Academy, ETiionville, Pennsylvania, and at Coatsville Academy, Coatsville, Pennsylvania, teaching while in the latter institution. When twenty-three years old, in 1858, he took up the study of medicine in his native county. He took a course in the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, from which he was graduated on March 9, 1861, and he began practice in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. He entered the army through the medical board at Philadelphia, consisting of Samuel D. Gross, S. Weir Mitchell, D Hayes Agnew, John Neil and Henry Hartshorn, and he was appointed as acting assistant surgeon in the United States army and sent to Washington City where he spent fifteen months in the general hospital. In January, 1863, he went before the board there and was examined for assistant surgeon in the volunteer army and received a commission as assistant surgeon with the rank of first lieutenant, and in June, 1863, he was appointed full surgeon but remained on duty in the hospital until August, when he was sent to Charleston, South Carolina, where he remained with the Union army about the forts there until the following April, being surgeon for a division until April. 1864, when he was sent to Florida and was at the battle of Olustee. On April 23. 1864, he came back to Virginia with the Tenth Corps and was stationed at Gloucester Point, and on May 5th he went with the army up the James river to meet Beauregard. The latter part of May he was at Cold Harbor and went with the Eighteenth Army Corps to join
Grant, his division suffering heavily in that battle, he being division surgeon and having charge of the surgeons in the hospital. He was at Petersburg, Virginia, all that summer and winter, being at the battle of Fort Harrison on September 29th, where heavy losses were again sustained by his division. On February 10, 1865, he was made medical director, with the rank of lieutenantcolonel, of the Twenty-fourth Army Corps, commanded by General John Gib bon. This corps was left at Appomattox to carry out the details of surrender. Doctor Morrison having charge of the Rebel medical stores that were turned over to the Union army. In March, 1865, he was sent with his corps to take die place of the Second Corps, which saw almost continuous fighting and followed Lee to his surrender, the Doctor being present at that time and during all the last fighting. The corps then camped at Richmond and was disbanded Inly 31st, and Doctor Morrison was put in charge of the district of South west Virginia at Lynchburg, where he remained until February, 1866, his district including twenty-six counties. Doctor Morrison being surgeon-in-chief of that district. He was discharged in February, 1866, after a most faithful and commendable record.
Doctor Morrison then went to New York city and opened an office, and remained there until 1873, when he selected Maryville, Missouri, as his field of practice, and in October of that year he opened an office here, there being only one man in practice at the county seat now who was here then. Doctor Dean. Doctor Morrison had an excellent practice from the first, one of his first cases being that of old Dr. B. G. Ford, whose fingers had been bitten by a parrot. Doctor Morrison amputating the finger and saving his life. This gave him a standing here as a surgeon. In October, 1874, he had an operation for strangulated umbilical hernia, he being called in as consulting surgeon with Doctor Mailing of Quitman, and he operated and saved the patient's life, and he performed many similar operations, some of them truly marvelous for that day and age, which gave him a high standing with medical men. His army experience stood him well in hand and he had many cases of surgery in his general practice, all of which further heightened his reputation as an unusually well informed and adroit surgeon. The local medical society was organized in 1872. Doctor Morrison was its secretary several years or until it was discontinued. He continued in active and successful practice up to the latter part of 1909, doing office practice during the past several years He frequently lectured among students on the eye and ear. his lectures liefore classes in the old seminary being highly spoken of. Of recent years he lias been an honorary member of the local medical society. He has also been a member of the State Medical Societv for several years. and he was a member of the pension board, serving as local pension board examiner since Garfield became president, being at present secretary of the board, and he was president of the same under Garfield. He has confined himself almost ex elusively to his practice, having contributed, from time to time, valuable articles to medical journals. His report of the Appomattox campaign is published in the “Medical and Surgical History of the War," medical volume, page 222, appendix.
The Doctor takes an active part in politics, and he was chairman of the Republican county committee in 1900-1902. He ws made a Mason in New York City, in 1867, and assisted in organizing the local chapter of the Royal Arch Masons. He belonged to St. Joseph Commandery and helped organize the local commandery at Maryville, he being the first eminent commander and he has since served again in this capacity. He has been a member of the Presbyterian church since 1854, joining the same when in school at Newark, Delaware. He was elder in the church for several years. His father was an elder of the church for forty years. Doctor Morrison is a charter member of the local Sedgwick Post. Grand Army of the Republic. He was president of the Maryville school board several years.
The Morrison family is of Scotch-Irish descent, the Doctor's father's great-grandfather, Gabriel Morrison, having come to America in 1735, local ing in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania.
Doctor Morrison was married on July 25, 1876, at Maryville, to Belle Pankey, daughter of Col. Thomas A. Pankev, of Howard county. Missouri, and to this union three children were born: Grace L. is a graduate of Columbia University, of New York and is now a teacher in Miss Porter’s school at Farmington, Connecticut; Paul lives at Prmrieburg, Iowa; Mildred is soprano soloist at the First Methodist Episcopal church South in Little Rock. Arxansas.
As printed in Past and present of Nodaway County, Missouri (1910). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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