Edward Morris was President of Morris & Company

Morris & Company

Morris and Company, whose president was Edward Morris, was one of several meatpacking companies in Chicago, Illinois, and in South Omaha, Nebraska....

, one of the three main meat-packing companies in Chicago. In 1890, he married Helen Swift a member of one of the other big three meat-packing families. Their daughter Muriel

Muriel Gardiner

Muriel Morris Gardiner Buttinger was an American psychoanalyst and psychiatrist.-Early Life and career:...

 became a renowned psychiatrist.

As president of Morris and Company, Edward Morris was involved in the decision, in 1902, to form the National Packing Co. This holding company was targeted by Arba Seymour Van Valkenburgh

Arba Seymour Van Valkenburgh

Arba Seymour Van Valkenburgh , was an American jurist who served as a Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.-Early years:...

 under the Elkins Act

Elkins Act

The Elkins Act is a 1903 United States federal law that amended the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887. The Elkins Act authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates, and upon the shippers that accepted these rebates. The railroad companies were...

 and eventually broken up in 1912.

His great-great-grandson, Edward Morris Jr., is one of New York City

New York City

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's most renowned preachers of the Jewish

Judaism

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faith.