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Murray Morrison (1820–1871) was a California State Assembly member, president of the Los Angeles Common Council and a judge of the Superior Court. ==Biography== Morrison was born in 1820 in Southern Illinois and was graduated from the Roman Catholic college of St. Louis, Missouri. He emigrated to California in 1849, where he settled in Sacramento and set up a law practice. In 1850 he was called "Maj. Murray Morrison" and was on a committee of managers for a Fourth of July celebration, the first one after statehood.〔" In Sacramento, Morrison eventually partnered with Todd Robinson, but later moved to San Francisco, where his business partner was J.P. Hoge.〔"The Late Hon. Murray Morrison, District Judge of the 17th Judicial District," ''Los Angeles Daily News,'' December 20, 1871, page 3〕 His brothers were Don Morrison, a member of the U.S. Congress from Illinois, and H.F. Morrison, judge of the 4th Judicial District of California. Murray Morrison was married in 1862 to Jennie White, the daughter of Thomas J. White, speaker of the Assembly in the first California Legislatere.〔〔Newmark, pages 186 and 436〕 Murray Morrison moved to Los Angeles in 1858 and died there of "an attack of erysipelas in the face" on December 18, 1871,〔 leaving his wife, Jennie. She survived him by only six days.〔Newmark, page 436〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Murray Morrison」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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