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Abraham Cressy Morrison was born in Wrentham, Massachusetts on December 6, 1864 to Abram B. Morrison.^[1] His sister was the writer, Cora Linn Daniels.

He traveled extensively with his parents (California, Isthmus of Panama) before they were “met with reverses” and he had to “give up all educational advantages and devote himself to the serious problem of life” at age 13. “He drifted from retail dry goods to machinery and tools, from wholesale dry goods to work in a hotel, from a lawyer’s office to syrups and molasses, from coals and wood to hard rubber and from there to a proprietary [business] called Maltine.”^[2]^[3]

“The proprietary business with the Maltine Manufacturing Company was not satisfactory in some respects, but during the short time he remained in their employ he was called upon to interview, on the subject of their wares, some seven thousand physicians and five thousand druggists.” This provided him with a foundation into the technique of advertising and landed him a job with the Pabst Brewing Co., where he eventually became in charge of advertising/publicity, at the age of 23. He worked for Pabst Brewery from 1895-97. It appears that Morrison was hired by Pabst principally to market Pabst's 'Malt Tonic' which was sold as the 'Best Tonic.'

Morrison was an avid ‘wheelman’ (bicyclist). He was an official in the League of American Wheelmen, serving as president of the Milwaukee Wheelmen, and eventually being named vice president in the national organization. He participated in long distance races and finished “within the money” in several 100-mile contests. He worked in Milwaukee and had a cottage in the Village of Whitefish Bay. The Milwaukee to Whitefish Bay ‘run’ was described by bicycling enthusiasts of the day as perhaps the most popular short run in Wisconsin. An early magazine for bicycle enthusiasts stated, “The road is always in prime condition and during the summer months good entertainment may be found at the Bay. The famous road begins in the extreme northeastern part of the city and follows a winding course of 5 miles along the lake shore.”

Morrison led local and national campaigns to improve roads and was appointed by the governor of Wisconsin to the ‘Committee on Good Roads.’

While in Milwaukee, Morrison had many other interests. He wrote a history of Milwaukee for a publication by the local real estate companies, and a chapter on the brewing industry that was itself included in the History of Milwaukee County.

He also wrote some literary works – including The Story of Damon and Pythias, and The Man Who Resembled Christ. The first publication was adopted as the “authentic version of the Knights of Pythias and ran through several editions – nearly 200,000 copies.”^[4]

Morrison published a book Man in a Chemical World in 1937, joining a growing tradition of books that tried to make science better known to the public. His largest work, The Baking Powder Controversy, was published by Fleming H. Revell Company that was acquired by Baker Publishing Group

,^[5] and is a two-volume work on the history of the baking powder industry in the U.S.

While serving as president of the New York Academy of Sciences, Morrison offered the "Morrison Astronomy Prize" from 1926 until at least 1945. One of the recipients was Hans Bethe for his theory of the carbon cycle in stars (1939). It is reported that Bethe, who on becoming aware of the prize, asked Physical Review to delay publication of his paper so he could compete for the Morrison Astronomy Prize. Bethe famously told the tale that he used the $500 prize to "liberate my mother's furniture" from Germany. In 1967, Bethe received the Nobel Prize for the carbon cycle.

Some published articles refer to Morrison as 'Dr.' A. Cressy Morrison, or as ‘Professor.’ While he was a named a ‘Fellow’ in the New York Academy of Sciences – a position generally held by esteemed scientists, his education appears to have been limited to “a public school education and a year in business college."^[6]

Cressy, as his intimate friends knew him, married the former Marguerite Snow of New York. They had a family summer residence on Deer Isle, located just southwest of Bar Harbor, Maine, where Morrison spent time entertaining and fishing. He belonged to The Chemists' Club of New York.

He died on January 9, 1951 at his home, 464 Clinton Avenue in Brooklyn, New York City.^[7]

Man Does Not Stand Alone

Morrison is known for his book Man Does Not Stand Alone^[8] which was published in 1944, a Christian rebuttal to Julian Huxley's Man Stands Alone. The book was a condensed version of which was published by Reader's Digest Books under that title. It was published in 1944, during the depths of the Second World War. In the publisher's preface to the condensed version, it is described as "a believing scientist's challenge to Julian Huxley's famous work "Man Stands Alone". The work is described in that preface as "One of the best sellers of the twentieth century." He also made a notable brief position statement entitled, "Seven Reasons a Scientist Believes in God." Morrison defended the argument from design.^[9] The book has been criticized for making faulty statistical arguments to prove the existence of God.^[10]^[11]

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1. ^{{cite web | url=http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/nave-html/faithpathh/morrisonbio.html | title=A. Cressy Morrison | publisher=Georgia State University | accessdate=November 17, 2013}}
2. ^Howard Conrad, ed., "History of Milwaukee County: From its First Settlement to the Year 1895," Vol. 2, 356
3. ^The 'proprietary business' was a name once extended to what is now the over-the-counter drug and nutritional supplement business. In the broadest sense, a 'proprietary business' is one that possesses private ownership of products with exclusive rights to use protected by copyright, patent or trade-mark.
4. ^"American Bookmaker: A Journal of Technical Art and Information," August 1890.
5. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=Xc3VAAAAMAAJ Google Books: The Baking Powder Controversy (Fleming H. Revell Company, 1944)]- Retrieved 2014-04-20
6. ^“A. Cressy Morrison,” Chemical and Engineering News, Vol. 20, No. 12, June 23, 1942.
7. ^¹²{{cite news |author= |title=A.C. Morrison, 86. Union Carbide Aide. Former Executive of Firm Dies. Offered Prizes for Theses on Solar, Stellar Energy |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1951/01/10/archives/ac-morrison-86-union-carbide-aide-former-executive-of-firm-dies.html |quote= |newspaper=New York Times |date=January 10, 1951 }}
8. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=qIZLAAAAIAAJ Google Books: Man Does Not Stand Alone]- Retrieved 2014-20-14
9. ^Grassian, Victor. (1984). Perennial philosophical Issues. Prentice-Hall. p. 58. {{ISBN|978-0136567691}}
10. ^Glass, Bentley. (1945). Reviewed Work: Man Does Not Stand Alone by A. Cressy Morrison. The Quarterly Review of Biology 20 (2): 168.
11. ^Jack, Henry. (1965). A Recent Attempt to Prove God's Existence. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 25 (4): 575-579.
12. ^McIver, Thomas Allen. (1989). [https://ncse.com/files/pub/library/Theses/McIver%2C%20Tom%20-%20Creationism%20-%20Intellectual%20Origins%2C%20Cultural%20Context%2C%20and%20Theoretical%20Diversity.pdf Creationism: Intellectual Origins, Cultural Context, and Theoretical Diversity]. University of California, Los Angeles.

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