Editing Morrison, Illinois (section)

==History==
In 1854, Lyman Johnson <ref>History of Whiteside County, [https://archive.org/details/historywhitesid00unkngoog/page/n313 <!-- quote=Lyman Johnson Powell Morrison. --> page 305] mentions history of Morrison, IL.</ref> and H. S. Vroom were already in what would become the City of Morrison as contractors and builders for the Air-line railroad, now the [[Union Pacific Railroad]]. Johnson and Vroom, along with several other entrepreneurs, acquired the land that would surround the rail station that was planned here. They managed the work of surveyor W.S. Wilkinson in the layout of the future town in 1855. Among these entrepreneurs were W.H. Van Epps. Lyman Johnson decided to call the town Morrison, in honor of Charles Morrison,<ref>{{cite book|author=Chicago and North Western Railway Company|title=A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OspBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA104|year=1908|page=104}}</ref> a friend of Van Epps and a wealthy merchant from New York, who promised financial support in the way of loans for the town's development. Shortly thereafter, Morrison suffered severe financial losses and he was unable to participate, yet his name remained.