Daniel S. Morrison papers

Daniel Strobridge Morrison was born May 12, 1849, in Greencastle, Indiana. He attended the public schools and later Indiana-Asbury College, now DePauw University. On account of ill-health he was forced to leave school and went to Kansas. He was licensed to exhort, February 22, 1871, and a year later was licensed to preach. About the same time he was married to Miss Rebecca Catherine Walter. The had three children, Myrtle, Katherine, and Roy.

Returning to Indiana, Brother Morrison was received on trial in the Northwest Indiana Conference in 1874. He was admitted to full membership and ordained deacon in 1876 by Bishop Simpson. He was ordained elder by Bishop Peck in 1878. He served the following charges in this conference: Carbon, Sandford, Summit Grove, Terre Haute Circuit, Camden, Door Village, and North Liberty.

In 1886 he transferred to the South Kansas Conference and served Osage Mission (now St. Paul), Walnut, Reading, and Madison. He moved to Emporia in 1891 to secure the advantages of the schools for his family. At the next session of the conference he was appointed to Dunlap, but failing health caused him to ask to be relieved of the work. He was given the retired relation at the following session of his conference.

Brother Morrison moved to San Diego in August 1924. He held his quarterly conference membership in Trinity Church, where he was greatly loved by pastors and people. Brother Morrison died in San Diego, California, on February 6, 1933.