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"History of Colorado", edited by Wilbur Fisk Stone, published by The S. J. 
Clarke Publishing Co. (1918)  Vol. II


p. 426-427



	CHARLES F. MORRIS.

	The record of Charles F. Morris, an able attorney of Denver, 
indicates most clearly what can be accomplished through individual 
effort when enterprise and industry are wisely and intelligently 
directed. He is a native son of the city in which he yet resides. His 
father was the late Robert Morris, a native of Ireland, who came to 
America about 1859 and first settled in New York. After residing for 
more than a decade in the east he came to the west. For a time he lived 
at Lawrence, Kansas, and in 1872 arrived in Colorado. With the 
development and progress of Denver he became closely and prominently 
identified and did not a little to shape its upbuilding and advancement 
in that early period. His fellow townsmen, appreciative of his worth 
and ability, called him to the office of mayor in 1880 and he occupied 
the position for two years, giving to the city a businesslike and 
progressive administration. From 1882 until 1884 he served as 
postmaster of Denver under President Arthur and at one time he was a 
member of the city council, serving in that capacity prior to his 
election to the mayoralty. In fact, his public work was of a most 
important character. He came to Colorado as land commissioner for the 
Kansas-Pacific Railroad Company and continued his residence in Denver 
to the time of his demise, which occurred on the 24th of June, 1917, 
when he had reached the age of seventy-eight years. In early manhood he 
wedded Julia O'Connor, a native of Ireland, who crossed the ocean in 
1865 and arrived in Colorado with her husband in 1872. They were 
married in New York city in 1868 and to them were born five children, 
two sons and three daughters, namely: Robert, who was born in Lawrence, 
Kansas; Gertrude, who was also born in Lawrence and is the widow of 
William Loutzenheiser, a resident of Denver; Beatrice Morris, who was 
born in Denver and is the wife of R. W. Morris, now of Long Island, New 
York; Elizabeth E., the wife of N. O. Pierce, of Denver; and Charles F.

	The last named, the youngest of the family, was educated in the 
public schools and the East Denver high school prior to entering the 
University of Denver, from which he was graduated on the completion of 
a law course in 1908 with the LL. B. degree. His course, however, was 
not continuous. Before entering upon preparation for the bar he had 
been employed at various pursuits, largely of a clerical nature, and 
thus in a way he paid for his tuition. He was ambitious to prepare for 
the bar and utilized every opportunity that helped him to attain that 
end. After his graduation he immediately entered upon the active 
practice of law, forming a partnership with L. J. Kavanaugh under the 
firm style of Kavanaugh & Morris. Later he became a partner of England, 
Morris & Stewart and since 1915 has practiced alone, giving his time 
and attention to general law work. His knowledge of the principles of 
jurisprudence is comprehensive and exact and he has been accorded a 
large clientage that has connected him with much of the important work 
of the courts, in which he is known as a deep thinker, a logical 
reasoner and a strong debater. In addition to his connection with the 
bar Mr. Morris is a director of the Great Western Alfalfa Milling 
Company, a Colorado corporation, and the Alliance Alfalfa Hay Company, 
also a Colorado concern.

	On the 9th of December, 3,916, Mr. Morris was united in marriage 
in Denver, Colorado, to Miss Cecil Isobell Walsh, a native of Illinois 
and a daughter of Sidney J. and Louise Walsh, both of whom are living 
and are of English birth.

	In his political views Mr. Morris has always been a republican 
since age conferred upon him the right of franchise. He belongs to the 
Lincoln Republican Club and he is a member of Kappa Sigma, a college 
fraternity. His aid is always given on the side of progress, reform, 
truth and right and in all the relations of life he holds to the 
highest standards.