Richard Morrissey Biography - Grant County Wisconsin ***************************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ***************************************************************************** Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft@cowtown.net History of Grant County Wisconsin Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881 Town of Bloomington, Biographical Sketches, Page 950 RICHARD MORRISSEY, Sec. 5; P.O. Bloomington; owns 400 acres land, valued at $40 per acre; born in Ireland in 1840; came to America in 1857, and in 1858 settled on his present farm Married Mary A. Hawks, a native of Ireland; they have four children - Delbert, William, Addie and Myrtle.