George Austin Morrison

George Austin Morrison (November 30, 1832 – February 26, 1916)

Morrison first attended the parish school at Fourdon, then Aberdeen Grammar School, before being sent to reside with his maternal uncle, George Lyall, at age sixteen. Lyall was a general merchant in Aberdeen with a branch of his business at Montego Bay in Jamaica.

Career After learning the merchant business in the house of his uncle, he left his uncles home, 99 Union Street, Aberdeen, and went to London in 1852 and joined George Moore's firm, Groucock, Copestake, Moore & Co., one of the leading mercantile houses, which was located in Bow Yard, London. Morrison stayed with the firm until 1856 when he moved to New York City to become the head of one of the departments in Cochran & Company, a wholesale dry gods house,

Social and club life

Morrison was a life member of the New-York Historical Society and the American Hackney Horse Society, a fellow of the National Academy of Design, a member of the New York Chamber of Commerce, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural History, the New York Botanical Gardens, the Holland Lodge of the State of New York, the St. George's Society, the Century Association, the Metropolitan Club, the Lawyers' Club and the New York Yacht Club. Together, they lived at 10 East 54th Street and were the parents of: Charles King Morrison (1867–1920), also a Harvard and Columbia graduate who married Mildred Horsten Hoag, daughter of Dr. William E. Hoag.

His wife died in 1891 and Morrison died at The Kenilworth, his residence in New York City, on February 26, 1916, and his funeral was held at his then residence, 151 Central Park West. His eldest son, and namesake, died shortly thereafter on November 29, 1916. Neither of his sons left children, therefore the Morrison name in this branch of the family became extinct upon his second son's death in 1920.