At Rest at Cypress Lawn: Alexander Morrison (1856-1921)
Alexander Morrison, a University of California law graduate specializing in corporate business, built a firm that became a bastion for San Francisco’s elite by serving as chief attorney for many of the city’s prominent companies. His notable clients included George and C. Frederick Crocker, William Matson, and Nicholas Ohlandt—all of whom, like Morrison himself, are buried at Cypress Lawn.
May Benton Treat Morrison (1858-1939), one of the first women to graduate from the University of California, served as president of the National Association of University Women and was active in civic and philanthropic work. She was Director of the College Equal Suffrage League, President of the San Francisco Children’s Hospital, and trustee of the California Academy of Sciences and Mills College. She donated the family’s 15,000-volume book collection, forming the core of the Alexander Morrison Memorial Library at UC Berkeley, and funded the Morrison Planetarium, now home to the world’s largest all-digital dome.
The marble Morrison Sarcophagus features cavorting cherubs.
Morrison is laid to rest within Section K, Lot 332. Click here to view an interactive map of our Memorial Park.