SAMUEL MORRISON, one of the oldest members of the city fire department of Council Bluffs, was born in Leicestershire, England, June 15, 1828, the son of James and Elizabeth (Harris) Morrison. Samuel was reared in his native country until seventeen years of age, when he came to America, locating in Upper Canada, where he remained three and a half years. He then came to the United States, and was engaged in traveling for nine years, after which he was employed as a stage driver in Ohio. He then came West and engaged in freighting across the plains, which he followed four years.

In 1865 he came to Council Bluffs and became a member of the volunteer fire department of this city, with which he was connected until 1886, when he was compelled to give up his duties on account of losing his eyesight, and is now totally blind, but he still hovers around his old haunts, the engine house.

He is a Republican politically, and is a member of the I.O.O.F., No. 49.

Contributed by: Darlene Vergamini