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The Trueblood Family In America
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dbeeler/Trueblood.html

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"The Trueblood Family in America" by Bula Trueblood Watson, copyright 1964.

"...Catherine attended the Salem Grammer School, where her teacher was the brilliant and handsome John Irwin Morrison, until 1827, when he resigned to enter Miami University at Oxford, Ohio. With two years advanced credit, he fulfilled the requirements of the junior and senior years in one year and received a BA degree in 1828; he returned to Washington Co. to take charge of the new Seminary. In 1832, Catherine, his former pupil, married him, and the two went on to establish in 1835 the Salem Female Institute, which he conducted until 1839. Their lives together were filled with active service as Mr. Morrison was many things- -newspaper man, teacher, educator, college professor, state superintendent of schools, state senator, state representative, ect. During the Civil War, Lincoln appointed him Commissioner of Enrollment in 1863, with an office at Jeffersonville; after the war he was state treasurer, living in Indianapolis. In 1872, he moved to Knightstown, Indiana, where his public service consisted of being president of the school board, 1874-1877, and where he remained until his death on July 17, 1882." pg 73

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Taken from Ancestry.com Biographies of Notable American's, 1904

The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume VII
M.
Morrison, Nathan Jackson

MORRISON, John Irwin, educationist, was born near Chambersburg, Pa., July 25, 1806; son of Robert and Ann (Irwin) Morrison. He removed to Washington county, Ind., in 1826, and was graduated from Miami university, Ohio, A.B., 1828, A.M., 1831. He was married, in 1832, to Catherine, daughter of Benoni and Rebecca (Trueblood) Morris, who was a graduate of Westtown seminary, Pa., and who assisted him in building and establishing Salem Female institute at Salem, Ind., in 1835. He was a representative in the Indiana house of representatives, 1839-40; professor of languages in the Indiana Stats university, Bloomington, 1840-43; and state senator, 1847-50. As a delegate to the constitutional convention of Indiana, 1850-51, he was chairman of the committee on education, drafting the article on education, and was the author of the section creating the office of state superintendent of public instruction. He was treasurer of Washington county, 1856-60; U.S. commissioner in the provost marshal's office, 1863-65, and state treasurer, 1865-67. He removed in 1872 to Knightstown, Ind., where he was president of the schoolboard, 1874-77. He was a trustee of Indiana university, 1846-49, 1850-55 and 1873-78, being president of the board during most of the time. He died at Knightstown, Ind., July 17, 1882.

The Trueblood Family In America
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dbeeler/Trueblood.html

Notes taken from

"The Trueblood Family in America" by Bula Trueblood Watson, copyright 1964.

".....emigrated as a small child with her parents to Indiana, 1817. The story of their stay in Randolph and Guilford Co. has previously been told. Catherine's uncle, Nathan Trueblood, must have made a lovong impression on the girl, as after she had grown up, married and had a family of her own, she told her daughter, Sarah, about Uncle Nathan and his home.

'But I always thought in those days that my Uncle Nathan Trueblood's house was the best place in this world or any other and really pitied everyone who hadn't an Uncle Nathan, but thought I was the most favored of all-mortals when at my uncle's house. We stopped there, some weeks I think, before our home near Salem, was ready for our occupancy.'

Catherine grew into "beauteous womanhood, her father's pride and joy." She learned to ride and to do everything that her brothers did. When she was old enough, she was given a colt, just like the boys, which she cared for and trained under Benoni's judicious supervision. She became "an especially accomplished rider and driver, holding the reins in that skilled manner showing the accomplished horsewoman."
Catherine attended the Salem Grammer School, where her teacher was the brilliant and handsome John Irwin Morrison, until 1827, when he resigned to enter Miami University at Oxford, Ohio. With two years advanced credit, he fulfilled the requirements of the junior and senior years in one year and received a BA degree in 1828; he returned to Washington Co. to take charge of the new Seminary. In 1832, Catherine, his former pupil, married him, and the two went on to establish in 1835 the Salem Female Institute, which he conducted until 1839. Their lives together were filled with active service as Mr. Morrison was many things- -newspaper man, teacher, educator, college professor, state superintendent of schools, state senator, state representative, ect. During the Civil War, Lincoln appointed him Commissioner of Enrollment in 1863, with an office at Jeffersonville; after the war he was state treasurer, living in Indianapolis. In 1872, he moved to Knightstown, Indiana, where his public service consisted of being president of the school board, 1874-1877, and where he remained until his death on July 17, 1882." pg 73

The Trueblood Family In America
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dbeeler/Trueblood.html

Notes taken from

"The Trueblood Family in America" by Bula Trueblood Watson, copyright 1964.

"...has been reported to be the first woman to graduate from Indiana University at Bloomington, as well as the first woman graduate of any state university. She wrote 'Among Ourselves', a set of six small volumes concerning the Morris family. The Trueblood family is treated in the first volume, which has been used many times in this Trueblood record with due appreciation. Sarah attended the West Town Quaker Seminary in Pennsylvania before going on to Indiana University. Her family background was one of culture and love of learning. She did not marry, as far as is known to this study." pg 111
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Taken from Ancestry.com - Biographies of Notable American's, 1904

The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume VII
M.
Morrison, Theodore Neven

MORRISON, Sarah Parke, educator, was born in Salem, Ind., Sept. 7, 1833; daughter of John Irwin (q.v.) and Catharine (Morris) Morrison, and granddaughter of Benoni and Rebecca (Trueblood) Morris. The Irwins came from Ireland, the Truebloods from England, and the Morrises from Wales, 1650, settled in North Carolina, from whence her grandparents removed at a considerable sacrifice to the free state of Indiana. Benoni Morris was an early advocate of co-education, abolition and reform in general, and his daughter Catharine a worker in temperance, prison reform, peace, and woman's advancement. Sarah Parke Morrison attended the Salem seminary and the Indianapolis commercial college, and was graduated from Mr, Holyoke seminary, Mass., in 1857. She entered Indiana university in 1867, being the first woman admitted to that institution and on the same terms offered to men; was graduated A.B., 1869, A.M., 1872, and engaged in teaching and in literary, temperance and religious work. She was pupil-teacher at Vassar college; an instructor at the first summer school for teachers at the State Normal school, Terre Haute, Ind.; a tutor at the Indiana university, and adjunct professor of English literature, 1873-75. She retired from public educational work in 1875, and devoted herself to study, writing and reform, serving as a minister in the Society of Friends.