He met the young Alice Nadine Lanterman, who accompanied silent films in Anacortes, Washington-area theaters; they married in 1912, had a son, Lew, in 1913, and moved to Bellingham, Washington in 1914, where he started a dancing school.
Their orchestra became a touring group "performing," Peter Blecha writes, "in upended barns, grange halls, open fields, anywhere and everywhere."
Initially selling dance-oriented songs to his dance students, the label went on to record many local amateurs and eventually professionals such as Paul Tutmarc and Bonnie Guitar.
[1] An inheritance around 1954 allowed the Morrisons to purchase a mansion at 1025 1st Avenue W on Queen Anne Hill, the pre-World War II residence of the Japanese Consul in Seattle.
Morrison records, although always a bit of a mom-and-pop business, expanded to handle all aspects of the record-making process except for cutting pressing masters from tape.
In 1955 he issued a 75-page booklet Morrie Morrison’s Dance Book: A Journey In The Land of Terpsichore, a work Peter Blecha describes as "eccentric."