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George Austin Morrison
1864–1916
A New York lawyer and genealogist with a strong taste for early American history, he wrote compact biographies and detailed family histories that still circulate in libraries and archives. His work ranges from a short life of Lafayette to painstaking studies of the King and Clarke families.
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De Camp Genealogy: Laurent De Camp of New Utrecht, N.Y., 1664, and his descendants
by George Austin Morrison
About the author
Born in New York City on March 26, 1864, George Austin Morrison, Jr. was educated by private tutors, attended the Cutler School, graduated from Harvard in 1887, and then studied at Columbia, earning an A.M. in 1888 and an LL.B. in 1889. He went on to practice law in New York, first with the firm of Morrison & Morrison and later under his own name.
Alongside his legal career, he built a reputation as a careful historical and genealogical writer. His books include Lafayette (1890), Clarke Genealogies (1902), History of Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York, 1756-1906, and The King Families of New England (published 1911-1914). Much of his writing shows a deep interest in lineage, local history, and the people who shaped early American and New York life.
He died in New York City on November 30, 1916. Though not widely known today, Morrison left behind the kind of solid reference works that historians, genealogists, and curious readers still return to when tracing families and forgotten corners of the past.