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


p. 263


JOHN J. MORRISSEY.

	John J. Morrissey has for eleven years engaged in the practice of 
law in Denver. He was born in Berea, Ohio, on the 19th of January, 
1883, and is a son of Thomas J. Morrissey, who was born in Dublin, 
Ireland, and on emigrating to the new world made his way to Boston. He 
afterward removed westward to Ohio and for many years was engaged in 
mill work but is now living retired in Berea at the age of sixty-nine 
years. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Katherine Ryan, was born 
in Canada and also survives. They had a family of five children who are 
yet living.

	John J. Morrissey acquired a public school education in Ohio and 
afterward attended the Baldwin University of Berea and was a student in 
the Baldwin-Wallace College, from which he was graduated with the class 
of 1901. He spent three years in Baldwin University and in 1904 he came 
to Colorado, with Denver as his destination. Here he entered the 
University of Colorado and was graduated on the completion of a law 
course as a member of the class of 1907. The same year he was admitted 
to the bar and entered upon active practice in connection with Judge 
McCall under the firm style of McCall & Morrissey. A later change in 
the partnership led to the organization of the present firm of 
Morrissey, Mahoney & Scofield. He enjoys a large practice and is able 
in argument, clear in his reasoning, logical in his deductions and at 
all times forceful in the presentation of his cause, which never fails 
to elicit the interest and attention of court and jury and seldom fails 
to win the verdict desired.

	In 1911 Mr. Morrissey was united in marriage to Miss Pauline 
Smith, a native of Colorado, and to them have been born two children: 
John J., four years of age; and Thomas George, three years of age. Mr. 
Morrissey has membership with the Knights, of Columbus and with the 
Cathedral Catholic church. In politics he was quite active in early 
years but now maintains an independent course. He belongs to the Denver 
Bar Association and is well known in the ranks of the profession, where 
he has already made a most creditable position for one of his years, 
and judged in the light of past events, his subsequent career will be 
well worth the watching.