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Boone's Lick Heritage Quarterly Boone’s Lick Heritage QuarterLy Berenice Morrison-Fuller Part I of Major Essay on Morrison Family BHS Summer Meeting Held in Glasgow at Historic Harrison House VoL. 15 no. 2 — summer 2016 BoonsLick HistoricaL society PeriodicaL Editor’s Page Preview of Things to Come The Morrison Chronicles: In the Beginning … room house in 1871. It was acquired by the Freeses in 2009. Information about the house and a sidebar featuring a reprint In the classical sense when we think of the word Chronicles, of the 1911 obit and tribute written for George B. Harrison and with a capital “C,” we likely are referencing either of two books published in the Glasgow Missourian accompany the article on of the Bible that tell the story of the Israelites from the creation of pages 26 – 27. The obit was given to the Quarterly by BHS mem- Adam to the middle of the sixth century BC. In the literal, little “c,” ber and historian Jim Denny, an inveterate collector of profiles sense, we are referring to a chronological account of past events about historically significant Missourians, especially from the of a period or in the life or development of a people, an institution, Glasgow area where he has long had family ties. or a place. Historian Lynn Morrow’s finely crafted essay on the Morrison family et al of Missouri and Howard County inspires the SHS Fellowships Available reverence of the first definition and aca- The State His- demic accolades in torical Society of terms of the second. Missouri announces Titled “From two Center for Mis- Salt-boiling to souri Studies fellow- Star-gazing: Mar- ship opportunities riage, Merchants, for the calendar year and Money,” this beginning January 52,000-word trea- 1, 2017. Each fel- tise on nineteenth- lowship carries a sti- century heiress pend of $5,000 for a Berenice Morrison- project that results in Fuller, her anteced- the completion of a ents, contemporaries 6,000 to 8,000-word and descendents, is scholarly essay, ex- a continuation of a clusive of notes. Es- multi-year effort by says must be com- Morrow to research pleted by the end of and write about the calendar year 2017 history of the Boon- and must reflect sig- Historic Hrrison House in Glasgow, circa 1872. Photo by Don Cullimore slick Country and nificant scholarship the cast of interest- in primary sources, ing and ambitious people who were part of its history from the evidence familiarity with appropriate secondary sources, and con- dawn of the nineteenth century into the twentieth. Few families tain endnotes that comply with The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th have had an impact on that history – socially and economically – edition. The finished product will be considered for publication in equal to the Morrison clan and those families to whom they were the Missouri Historical Review, although completion of the project connected by marriage and business. is no guarantee of publication. In addition, successful applicants The first installment in these chronicles, covering from the will be asked to make a public presentation based on their project. 1790s to 1830s, was titled “Boone’s Lick in Western Expansion: Topics for 2017 Fellowships: 1) History of Native Americans James Mackay, the Boones, and the Morrisons.” Published in the in Missouri, and 2) History of Latinos/as in Missouri. Deadline for Fall-Winter 2014 issue of the Quarterly, it set the stage for this Completion of Application: September 1, 2016 second look at the Morrisons, which begins here and will be serial- Application Process: Applicants are encouraged to complete ized over two additional issues of the Quarterly between now and the online form available at http://shsmo.org/thecenter/fellow- the the first of the new year. As with the earlier essay, this one is ships/apply. A successful submission should include a title, pro- a scholarly work that provides the author’s fresh insights into his posal, list of main primary sources, proposed timeline, and evi- subject, in this case, Berenice Morrison and her extended family. dence of applicant’s ability to complete such a project. In addition, applicants must submit a curriculum vitae no more than two pages Harrison House Site of BHS July Meeting in length. Award Announcement: December 1, 2016. For more infor- Nearly two dozen BHS members gathered for a summer meet- mation, please contact John Brenner, Managing Editor, brennerj@ ing at the George B. and Luan Birch Harrison House, the lovingly shsmo.org, phone: 573.882.7083. State Historical Society of Mis- refurbished Victorian-era home of Mark and Susan Freese at 1109 souri, 1020 Lowry Street, Columbia, MO 65201. Randolph Street in Glasgow. Small group tours of the featured house were given by the Freeses. The Harrisons built the seven- —Don B. Cullimore 2 Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly • Vol. 15, No. 2 • Summer 2016 Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly is published four times a year by the Boonslick Historical oone s ick Society, P.O. Box 426, Boonville, MO 65233. B ’ L We encourage our members and others inter- Heritage QuarterLy ested in history to contribute articles or other information of historical interest, including Boonslick Historical Society Vol. 15, No. 2 • Summer 2016 family histories, pertaining to the region. Please address all contributions and correspondence re- lated to the periodical to the editor, Don B. Cul- Contents limore, 1 Lawrence Dr., Fayette, MO 65248, or email to: [email protected], phone: 660-248-1732. Editorial guidelines may be ob- Part I: Essay on Morrison Family Page 4 tained from the editor. Publication deadlines are By Lynn Morrow February 1 for the March (Spring) issue; May 1 for the June (Summer) issue; August 1 for the September (Fall) issue; and November 1 for the This issue features Part (Winter) December issue. I of a major essay on the The Boonslick Historical Society was founded Morrison Family that in 1937 and meets several times a year to enjoy will be serialized over programs about historical topics pertinent to the three issues of the Quar- Boonslick area. Members of the Society have terly. Below are titles of worked together over the years to publish his- torical books and brochures and to mark historic the next installments. Berenice Morrison- sites. They supported the founding of Boone’s Fuller, Glasgow Lick State Historic Site, marked the sites of Heiress Cooper’s Fort and Hanna Cole’s Fort and have restored a George Caleb Bingham painting on loan to The Ashby-Hodge Gallery of American Art at Central Methodist University, Fayette. Historic George B. Harrison House, Glasgow Pages 26-27 By Don Cullimore Membership dues are $15-Individual, $25-Family, $50-Sponsor, $250-Patron, $500- Life. The dues year is January through De- cember. Receive our publication, Boone’s Lick BHS members gathered Heritage Quarterly, and attend annual Society at the historic Harrison events highlighting the region’s history. To House in Glasgow on become a member, send a check made out to July 17. The Italianate the Boonslick Historical Society, P.O. Box 426, Victorian home is owned Boonville, MO 65233. by Mark and Susan Officers and Board Members 2016 Freese. Cindy Bowen, Armstrong, President Brett Rogers, Boonville, Vice President Sam Jewett, Boonville, Treasurer Denise Gebhardt, Glasgow, Secretary Coming in the Fall issue, Morrison essay, Don Cullimore, Fayette Mike Dickey, Arrow Rock Part II – Oswald and Berenice: Berenice Morrison’s Larry Harrington, Fayette Education & Oswald’s Visions Connie Shay, Fayette James (Jim) Steele, Fayette Tom Yancey, Fayette Coming in the Winter issue, Morrison essay, Part III – Berenice and Glasgow: The Morrison- Editorial Staff Don B. Cullimore, Editor Fullers in Glasgow Cathy Thogmorton, Graphic Designer Cover photo of Berenice Morrison-Fuller [Scarritt-Royster-Swinney Family Papers Collection, SHSMO-KC]. Key: SHSMO = State Historical Society of Missouri. Boone’s Lick Heritage Quarterly • Vol. 15, No. 2 • Summer 2016 3 Morrison Family Special Three-part Essay Salt-boiling to Star-gazing: Marriage, Merchants, and Money By Lynn Morrow Introduction erations of an upper-class family in Missouri. The Morrisons Boone’s Lick and the Morrison Observatory are two well- present a glimpse of a prominent merchant household, who pro- known historic sites in Missouri, yet, their organic and compli- duced an heiress who was “at home” in St. Louis, Howard County, cated connection in family history is not. The latter site resulted Europe, and in Brookline, Massachusetts, a quintessential New from the beneficence of Bernice Morrison (1856-1947), a teen-age England enclave. The family, writ large, represents a cameo of a ward of her uncle James Oswald Swinney (1830-1899) — Bereni- self-conscious clan, men who were aggressive capitalists; all were ce wrote that the family called him Oswald. Bernice’s charitable believers in training and education for advancement, and they con- gift of $100,000 to establish the observatory as a distinctive insti- tributed to educational institutions. They were related by blood tution, to support professorships, and materially aid the general and marriage, all had their likes and dislikes of each other, but their welfare of the Pritchett School Institute in 1875 is unique in Mis- extended family’s long-distance mercantile reach from the Upper souri history. What other young person in Victorian Missouri who Missouri River, down to New Orleans, and across the Atlantic to had not yet reached majority age pledged that amount of money, England connected their intertwined fortunes throughout the nine- worth $2,180,000 in modern value, to the public good? Looking teenth century and beyond. back 141 years, how could a nineteen-year-old heiress afford to Trade east-to-west, and to a lesser extent, west-to-east, is direct such an enormous a dominant theme in amount of money for a This is the first installment of a major essay on Booneslick history.
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