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estate, she concerned herself with the well-being and comfort of her farm tenants and provided education for the tenants' children. She and her second husband funded scholarships for hundreds of young men and women receiving higher education. Morrison endowed the
Assembly Training School, the
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She served as the state's first lady for a short tenure of less than one year. Morrison was known as a friendly and warm hostess at the
Executive Mansion. Although she had not grown up with the responsibilities of elaborate entertaining, she became accustomed to it during her first marriage.
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after their wedding. She took over the managing of the house, and kept on the personal maid, Lola Allen Lewis, of
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