History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 601.
[Scott County]  [Georgetown City and Precinct]

JUDGE JOHN G. MORRISON, coal-dealer; Georgetown, was born near West Union
in Adams County, Ohio, October 23, 1810.  He was left an orphan at a very
early age, and lived for a time with an uncle, David Morrison, at
Washington, Kentucky; he came to Kentucky at the age of eight years.  He
moved to Maysville in 1822, and thence to Lexington in 1824; with another
uncle, Richleson Morrison, a merchant; he was in that city when Lafayette
made his visit there, and remembers well the man whose name is prominent
in history.  He lived in Lexington, acting as clerk in his uncles dry
goods store until 1830, when he moved to Frankfort and there opened a like
store of his own, which continued two years.  In 1832 he went to
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was salesman in a wholesale dry goods house
for two years, when he returned to Lexington again, doing business for
himself.  In 1836, at Great Crossings, Scott County, Ky., he married Miss
Nancy B., daughter of Gen. William Johnson, and the following year went to
Phillips County, Ark., to plant cotton, but was not successful in this
new adventure, owing to the overflow at that time.  He returned to
Kentucky, living at Great Crossings from 1841 to 1857; from 1842 to 1846
he rode as deputy sheriff of Scott County; he followed the occupation of
farming and rope-spinning from 1847 to 1856; in 1857 he moved to
Georgetown and has since that year resided in the house he first made his
home.  In 1862 he was elected county judge of Scott County, and served
four years, his election being made by the Union Party and without
opposition.  In 1868 he was appointed United State Gauger for the 7th
District of Kentucky, and for three years served in that capacity, since
which time he has engaged in the lumber and coal business, and as a citizen
is much esteemed.  He has four children living and two deceased. He is a
Free Mason and in politics was a Whig and later a Republican.  He has one
brother and two sisters living.  His father was born in Ireland and was a
farmer, he died about 1818.

Morrison Johnson
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Fayette-KY Maysville-Mason-KY Franklin-KY Phillips-AR PA

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