The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-08-21
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DIES D SHOCK
S7yyFel1-TX noW1l Actor ccumbs
h Suddenly after Operation il
ST.. John's Hospital, Yonkers.
WON WIDE FAME, IN s..FAUsT''Y'''
Entered Prof After Gallant
Career iii Civil Assoc i-fs
ate Of Great Ira edians.

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NEW YORK, August 20.--I1cwis Iorri-
son. an &C tor, whose work as NJ ephisto
In 4" Faust gained him fame, died sud-
denly of shock on Saturday afternoon In
st. Johns Hospital, : Yonkers, af ter un-3
dergoing an III operation for stomach
trouble. "A stl (. s EN- 3
Taken Ill suddenly last week, M 70 Mo r.
rison was Informed 4 by his physicians
| that an immediate operation was ileces-
4 sary to save his life. IIe was under en-
gagement to start for San Francisco on
Friday. but wired that he would delay
a few days. He Echeerfully went to the
operating table He recovered from the
Influence a of the ether8 administered to-
q man8of his sage-61 yeArs-alldf early In
the afternoon. 81 surrounded by his family,
he passed away. sSSi 8s All sSif 3si $5st'3
Mr.. Morrison resided each summer with
his daughter. Miss Rosabel M orrison, at
I Neperhnn Heights, y She, With his other
t5daugh tel, 4 Ma bel wife %of Richard Benz
nett; Mr.. Bennett. and his wife, Flor
cnce Roberts. we're at his bedside when
1.-THE end came. 48is ll5sS n j5S5 ll 8
Fought in Civil War,
Few members Of tho theatrical Sprofe
sion were mode widely known lh the
United States and Canada than Mr.. Nor
rlson,, He was born Of English, parent
age in kingston jamaica. W,ls1 /. In 1916.
lie came to- this country al an early age
and enlisted. on the Union side in tho
Civil war, II rose to the rank OF lleu-E
tenant,Eand on his honorable discharge a T.
OF captain or8distinguIshed service He
won the personal friendshlpFnnd praise
OF General Grant during the Siege of
Yicksburg, when he swan the M lsslssIppl
under the fire of the batteries with dis
patches for the Federal army " i N 3
After his discharge from the army Mr.
Morrison entered the theatrical profes-5
aSe y o'9s XII H XII sss
appearance with Lawrence Barrett in
1866. II 9 was afterward associated with
Edwin Booth, Edwin Forrest, Tomasol
Cusllmnn, Janauschek, Rose Coghlan and
Agnes Booth f6E3 "a. n "a EN- I A IL, ri
During his career Mr.. Morrison played
Laertes To- \, Booths I g Hamlet, Eagar to
othello Romeo to Adelaide Nelson's Ju-i
|8liet. Macduff to Charlotte Cushmnn's;
Lady Macbeth. and a host of other lead
nine years as leading man with the old
Walnut Street Theatre Stock Company
| in philadelphia, playing alternately With
Charles yyolcott after which he came to
Victor Durand. q performance which
Is still renemberedt by old New Workers.
and which stamped him immediately as
hs RE- r sieo tha R ae
field also Won tho 0rst triumph or ms
career,
Faust" for Twenty Years,
, Because OF a contract with Al. Hayman
In San Francisco Mr. Morrison left New
York 1ust before his one-hlrndredth# per-
Torrance in s5eYictor Durand,p 81 He be- no,
cnIifornia Theatre stock Company and
Vas N there associated with sueh pIayers q, as
John McCullough, BARLEY McGnlio'm 2 M
H bishop. James o'Neill, JeHries Lewis
aud Kate Meek. lie then took up Faust
with himeelf as Mephisto, and for fully,
twenty Years starred this country. and
Canada with wonderful success and =. NOD
narty Rn YES Wsn 70 av haS. SAe
F,,,peraI services were held at Neper-s
man Heights TODAY The body was TEN.
,norarily MA ced n & receiving vault al
Mount Hope .celnetery,55