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Murray Morrison - Wikipedia

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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 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.^[1]" In Sacramento, Morrison eventually partnered with Todd Robinson, but later moved to San Francisco, where his business partner was J.P. Hoge.^[1]

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 Legislature.^[1]^[2]

Murray Morrison moved to Los Angeles in 1858 and died there of "an attack of erysipelas in the face" on December 18, 1871,^[1] leaving his wife, Jennie. She survived him by only six days.^[3]

Business transactions

In February 1861, while an Assembly member, Morrison "learned of the willingness of Eastern capitalists" to build a railroad between Los Angeles and the harbor at Wilmington or San Pedro, south of the city. within 18 months, provided the county would subscribe $100,000 and the city $50,000 to pay for it.^[4] He and his partner, Abel Stearns, secured a franchise to build the line from Los Angeles to the port at San Pedro, but it was not possible to raise the promised money because of the Civil War, and the project was halted.^[5]

Public service

On May 7, 1866, Morrison was elected to the Los Angeles Common Council and was named to its presidency, where he served until June 1, 1868, when he resigned from the council.^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "The Late Hon. Murray Morrison, District Judge of the 17th Judicial District," Los Angeles Daily News, December 20, 1871, page 3
^ Newmark, pages 186 and 436
^ Newmark, page 436
^ Newmark, page 295
^ John R. Signor, The Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad Company, Golden West Books, San Marino, California (1968), ISBN 0-87095-101-7, page 17
^ Los Angeles City Officials. The city officials elected May 6, 1867, "were deposed and with few exceptions the officials elected the previous year (May 7, 1866) remained in office. They officiated until April 6, 1866[,] when a new group of officials was elected, which[,] although certified on April 9, never took office. The 1866/67 administration, with a few changes[,] continued to function from April 20th to the regular election changed . . . to December 7, 1868. In other words, with the exception of the time from May 6, to August 8, 1867, the governing body elected May 7, 1868, actually served until December 7, 1868."

Members of the Los Angeles Common Council (1850–1889)

Presidents:

Members
(1850–1870)

Wards
(1870–1889)

1st Ward

Julian A. Chavez
Bernard Dubourdin
John Jones
Thornton P. Campbell
Oscar Macy
Julian Valdes
Joseph Mullaly
George R. Long
Jacob F. Gherkins
Ramon R. Sotelo
Joseph G. Carmona
F. Tamiet
B. Valle
Cayetano Apablasa
Ezra M. Hamilton
Louis Meinzer
John Schaeffer
R. L. Beauchet
William Norton Monroe
J. G. Bower
Clinton S. Scheiffelin
Charles W. Schroeder
William Thomas Lambie
James Velsir
Thomas Goss
George L. Stearns
Edward A. Gibbs
James Hanley
Newell Mathews
C. N. Earl
George O. Ford

2nd Ward

3rd Ward

Frank Sabichi
Henry Dockweiler
William S. Hammel Sr.
John Osborn
Elijah H. Workman
H.K.S. O'Melveny
William H. Dennison
Eulogio F. de Celis
William Osborn
Charles E. Huber
Louis Wolfskill
Thomas Leahy
D.V. Waldron
Elisha K. Green
John S. Thompson
John H. Jones
Albert Fenner Kercheval
Charles Brode
Simon A. Francis
S. H. Buchanan
Edward Falles Spence
George Gephard
Andrew S. Ryan
Robert Steere
J. B. O'Neil
Charles Gassen
Charles R. Johnson
Loring A. French
Albert Brown
Levi Newton Breed
Edward Wadsworth Jones
Edward C. Bosbyshell
John F. Humphreys
J. H. Book
John Henry Bryant

4th Ward

William H. Workman
Samuel J. Beck
Samuel Marshall Perry
O. H. Bliss
Bernard Cohn
Burdette Chandler
George Kerckhoff
Joseph W. Wolfskill
Alfred Louis Bush
D. E. Miles
Frank Sabichi
Milton Santee
James D. Bullis
John Lovell
Joseph Hyans
Anthony McNally
Edward R. Threlkeld

5th Ward

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