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Frank Barron Morrison, 1887–1958: A Brief Biography

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-4801

Abstract

His work as a teacher, scientist, author and administrator spanning almost 50 years, earned for Professor Frank Barron Morrison a place of distinction and esteem throughout the world during the first half of the twentieth century. He was one of the great leaders in agricultural sciences and probably contributed more than any other individual to the livestock industries during that period.

In ancestry, early environment and education background, the life of F. B. Morrison followed a pattern that became traditional in the U.S. He was born on a farm in southern Wisconsin, near Fort Atkinson, on May 19, 1887, the younger of two children in a family of New England origin with Scottish-English ancestry. His parents, Charles Irving Morrison and Harriet Barron Morrison, followed a pioneering urge and moved to the virgin farm country around Marshfield, Wisconsin in 1901 when Frank was a young boy. Growing up in this still young country, only a few years from logging days, with lots of chores and farm work, was a valuable experience for young Morrison.

¹ Acknowledgment is given to these sources: Morrison portrait presentation to the Saddle and Sirloin Club, Am. Soc. of Anim. Prod., Chicago, 1938; personnel files of the Dept. of Anim. Sci., Cornell Univ; Early History of Animal Husbandry and Related Departments of the University of Wisconsin, by Gustav Bohstedt, 1973; and Animal Husbandry at Cornell University: A History and Record of Development from 1868 to 1963, by Kenneth L. Turk, 1987.

² Prof. of Anim. Sci. Emeritus.