Artist: Robert Wadsworth Grafton (1876–1936)
Edward Morris
MORRIS, EDWARD (1866–1913), inducted 1915
Nelson Morris’s son, Ira Nelson Morris, was the American ambassador to Sweden, but son Edward took over the helm of Morris & Company after his father’s death. He also had strong ties to several Chicago financial institutions. Edward married the daughter of another meatpacking industry giant and Saddle & Sirloin inductee, Gustavus F. Swift Sr. Edward Morris began working in the family business at age fourteen. Edward’s son Nelson, named after his grandfather, was educated at Harvard University, before becoming an executive at Morris & Company. A philanthropist like his father, Edward Morris purchased university founder John Harvard’s ancestral home in Stratford-on-Avon, England, and donated it to the school in 1909. As an aside to this family story, the younger Nelson Morris (Edward’s son) was a survivor of the famous Hindenburg disaster in 1937.
Source: Saddle & Sirloin Guidebook 2026, p. 145