Editing Dorilus Morrison (section)

==Life and career==
Morrison was born in [[Livermore, Maine]]. His first business was as a merchant supporting the lumber industry near [[Bangor, Maine]]. In 1854, Morrison visited Minnesota to investigate potential lumber interests. He was sufficiently impressed that he sold his businesses in Maine and moved to St. Anthony, Minnesota within a year. He became involved in the local lumber and milling industries (along with his fellow Mainer [[William D. Washburn]]) and became an early investor in the Minneapolis Milling Company (forerunner of today's [[General Mills]]).<ref name=atwater>{{cite book|editor1-last=Atwater|editor1-first=Isaac|editor-link1=Isaac Atwater|title=History of the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Part II|date=1893|publisher=Munsell & Company|location=New York|pages=614–618|url=https://archive.org/stream/historyofcityofm02atwa#page/613/mode/2up}}</ref>

In 1863, Morrison was elected to represent the 5th district in the [[Minnesota State Senate]] and served from 1864 to 1865.<ref>{{cite web|title=Morrison, Dorilus — Legislator Record|url=http://www.leg.state.mn.us/legdb/fulldetail.aspx?ID=14047|website=Minnesota Legislative Reference Library}}</ref> When the city of Minneapolis was formally incorporated in 1867, Morrison was elected as its first mayor. He was re-elected to a second term in 1869 and ran unsuccessfully for a third in 1872.<ref>{{cite web|title=Career of Dorilus Morrison|url=http://electiontrendsproject.org/search/search.php?candidate=62|website=Minnesota Election Trends}}</ref>

Morrison supported the initial construction of the [[Northern Pacific Railroad]] along with William Washburn, [[George A. Brackett]], [[William S. King]] and others.<ref name=atwater/> When the [[Norwest Corporation|Northwestern National Bank of Minneapolis]] was chartered in 1872, Morrison was its first president.<ref>{{cite web|title=A History of Minneapolis: Banking and Finance|url=http://www.mpls.lib.mn.us/history/bi2.asp|publisher=Minneapolis Public Library (mpls.lib.mn.us)|year=2001|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20020616120340/http://www.mpls.lib.mn.us/history/bi2.asp|archivedate=June 16, 2002 }}</ref> Around that same time, he began building a [[streetcar line]] in the city.  He joined with other businessmen, and eventually hired [[Thomas Lowry]], who got the line up and running in 1875.  The line eventually merged with a line in neighboring [[St. Paul, Minnesota|St. Paul]] to become [[Twin City Rapid Transit]].

Morrison died in 1897.