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Clarence M. Mccutchen pursued his education in the public and high schools of Wichita Falls, completing the high school course with the class of 1906. He then entered the University of Texas and a year later, in 1907, became a student in the University of Colorado and completed his course in that institution in 1910, at which time the LL. B. degree was conferred upon him. Following his graduation he entered upon practice in Denver and has since remained a member of the profession of this city. He belongs to the Denver Bar Association, also to the Colorado State Bar Asso- ciation, and he enjoys the high regard of many of his brethren of the profession. He is most careful in the preparation of his cases, displays marked fidelity to the interests
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of his clients and at all times recognizes the fact that he owes his highest allegiance to the majesty of the law.
Mr. Mccutchen has at times been connected with various military organizations and holds several world records as a revolver shot. He won the second prize in the 1913 military revolver championship and was a member of the Denver team which won the 1913 team championship of the United States and also of the Colorado team, winners of the N. R. A. revolver team championship for 1913. He has also done a great amount of work in training military meu in marksmanship. While in college he held the record for the broad jump and low hurdles and was very active in athletics. He still holds the record made during those days. He belongs to the Sons of the American Revolution and his religious faith is that of the Episcopal church. His attention is now in large measure concentrated upon his profession. His activities have wrought in him a well rounded development that constitutes him a strong and resourceful man. His expertness as a champion revolver shot has brought him prominently before the public and in the practice of law he is also winning for himself a creditable name and place, his practice steadily increasing in volume and importance. He recognizes the necessity of thorough training and preparation and never enters the courts until well qualified to take his part in the lists and win forensic combat.
HON. WILLIAM L. MORRISSEY.
"The best labor commissioner Colorado ever had." This tersely expresses the feeling of every resident of Colorado toward the Hon. William L. Morrissey who was appointed state labor commissioner by Hon. James R. Noland, secretary of state, March 1, 1917. The opinion is shared by the worker and the employer of labor alike for Mr. Morrissey has been eminently fair to both sides.
Mr. Morrissey is a native of Illinois, born October 4, 1876, at Bloomington, the youngest son of John and Mary (Thornton) Morrissey. His parents were natives of Ireland who emigrated to America in early life. They lived in Bloomington for more than a half century. The father died in March, 1914, aged eighty-five years, and the mother passed away January 13, 1918. The elder Morrissey served as a member of the Home Guard during the Civil war.
William L. Morrissey was of a family of nine children. Like others who have suc- ceeded through their own efforts, he was trained in the school of hard knocks. He paid his way through school by carrying morning and evening papers and by hard work during vacation times. He graduated from the Bloomington high school and then entered upon an active journalistic career. While connected with the local press of Bloomington he studied law and graduated from the Illinois Wesleyan Law School, one of the pioneer in- stitutions of Illinois. He never entered the practice of the legal profession. The training, however, proved useful to him in after years not only in the newspaper field but in his present responsible position.
The subject of this sketch could not resist the lure of the west and moved to Colo- rado. He was connected with the transportation service of the Colorado & Southern Railroad but was soon called back to newspaper work by an offer from the Denver Post. He served that publication for eleven years before his appointment as state lahor com- missioner. The versatility of Mr. Morrissey was shown in his newspaper work. He had the reputation of never "falling down" on an assignment. He "handled" all of the lahor controversies in Denver and Colorado for his paper and his fairness earned him the respect and the confidence of employer and employe. He served as financial editor of the Post and as such came in contact with the men of large affairs. The latter reposed the same trust in him as did the toilers of the commonwealth.
It will thus be seen that Mr. Morrissey is probably the best equipped by education, training and experience, of any state labor commissioner in the United States. He came from a family known throughout the country for its knowledge of industrial conditions and leadership of labor. He grew up in an atmosphere of labor democracy but in an atmosphere which always breathed the spirit of fairness to the employer.
Mr. Morrissey was a candidate for the democratic nomination for Congress in the September, 1918, primaries and was defeated by the small margin of sixty-six votes. His campaign was unique in that he did not open headquarters; spent very little money; had no district or precinct organization, workers or watchers and did not neglect his duties at the state capitol a day during the campaign. It was a tribute to his personal strength and of the splendid record he had made as a state official.
On the 16th of October. 1907, Mr. Morrissey was married to Miss Ellen Gertrude
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O'Neil, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel M. O'Neil, pioneer residents of Bloomington. Illinois.
Mr. Morrissey is a member of the Denver Press Club, the Democratic Club and the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. Few men in the country are better informed on sociological, political, economic and labor conditions than Mr. Morrissey.
WILLIAM RAY BROWN, D. D. S.
Dr. William Ray Brown, of Pueblo, engaged in the practice of dentistry and thoroughly in touch with the most advanced scientific methods of the profession, was born in Columbia, Pennsylvania, on the 18th of August, 1887, and is a son of Charles J. and Elizabeth (McCurren) Brown, both of whom have now passed away. The son supplemented his public school education by study in Girard College of Philadelphia and afterward became a student in the Colorado College of Dental Surgery, in which he pursued the full course and was graduated with the class of 1909, thus becoming well qualified for the onerous and responsible duties of the profession. He had become a resident of Colorado in 1903 and in 1913 he removed to Pueblo, where he opened an office and has since been successfully engaged in the practice of dental surgery. He displays marked skill in the use of the many delicate little instruments which form the equipment of the dentist, adding mechanical ingenuity to broad scientific knowledge, and his work has been highly satisfactory to his patrons, who, speaking a good word for him when opportunity offers, have constituted an excellent medium of spreading his professional reputation as a first class dentist. His business has thus steadily grown and has now reached gratifying proportions.
On the 18th of July, 1910, Dr. Brown was united in marriage to Miss Bess M. Bashor, a native of Colorado. They are well known socially in the city in which they make their home, having an extensive circle of warm friends who extend generous hospitality to them, They are members of the Congregational church and Dr. Brown is also identified with the Masonic fraternity. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, which he has supported since age conferred upon him the right of franchise. His aid and influence in public affairs are always given on the side of progress and advance- ment, as he believes in constructive methods and his cooperation can be counted upon to further any movement or measure for the general good.
HERBERT I. REID.
Herbert I. Reid, a civil engineer of Colorado Springs, well known by reason of his high professional attainments, was born on a farm in Washington county, Indiana, in 1859. His father, Isaiah Reid, was a native of South Carolina, born in 1800, and was a son of William Reid, a native of Scotland, who was reared and married in that country, the lady of his choice being Mary Clyde. Emigrating to the new world, they settled first in South Carolina but not long afterward removed to Indiana, where they spent their remaining days. The removal was made during the early childhood of Isaiah Reid, the family home being established in Washington county, Indiana, where Isaiah Reid continued to reside until called to his final rest. He was married in that state to Hannah Lusk, a native of Pennsylvania, and her death occurred in Washing- ton county, Indiana, in 1869, while Mr. Reid survived until 1883, having through about three-quarters of a century been an honored and valued resident of his section of that state.
Herbert I. Reid was reared upon the old homestead farm in Washington county, Indiana, amid the usual environment and with the usual experiences of the farm-bred hoy. He attended the rural schools and academy at Salem, then became a student at the Central Normal College at Danville, Indiana and also the National Normal School at Lebanon, Ohio, there taking the engineering course with the classes of 1880-82. In 1882 he arrived in Colorado Springs for the benefit of his health and for a year engaged in teaching in El Paso county. He then took up the practice of his profession, in which he has continued for more than a third of a century, and throughout the intervening years he has made for himself a most creditable name and place in civil engineering circles in Colorado. For seventeen years he filled the office of city engineer of Colorado Springs and was county surveyor for six years, also engineer for the late General William J. Palmer until the latter's death. No higher testimonial of capable service
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could be given than the fact that he was so long retained in these positions, the duties of which were discharged with marked promptness, fidelity and capability.
In 1884, in Salem, Indiana, Mr. Reid was married to Miss Mary Belle Gibbs, a daughter of the late George Gibbs, who was a soldier of the Civil war, enlisting from Indiana. He was wounded, occasioning the loss of one leg in the service. He had also defended the interests of his country through military activity in the Mexican war and he passed away in 1894. To Mr. and Mrs. Reid were born the following named: Florence, who is the wife of Jasper H. Sanford; Ralph H .; Ruth Hannab, who gave her hand in marriage to Roy W. Maupin; Lucy G., who was graduated from Colorado College on the 29th of May, 1918; Margaret; and Herbert Lusk. The wife and mother passed away on the 27th of December, 1905, and her demise was the occasion of deep and widespread regret.
Mr. Reid is an active and helpful memher of the First Presbyterian church of Colorado Springs and he is a York Rite Mason, having attained the Knights Templar degree. He is also identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His political allegiance is given to the republican party and he keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the day, giving stalwart and earnest support to plans and measures which have for their object the benefit and upbuilding of city and state.
DANIEL L. WEBB.
Daniel L. Webb, an attorney at law actively engaged in practice in Denver since 1900, is numbered among the native sons of Colorado, his birth having occurred in Cañon City on the 7th of December, 1873. His father, Henry N. Webb, was born in New York city and, removing to the west, became a resident of Colorado in 1867. He was identified for many years with the hardware trade in Canon City and Leadville but has now departed this life. He was a representative of one of the old families of the Empire state. He married Josephine Lee Biggs, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, who is now living in Denver.
Daniel L. Webb, spending his youthful days under the parental roof, acquired his early education in the public schools of Denver. He afterward entered Jarvis Hall, a military school, in which he completed his course in 1892. At a later date he determined upon the practice of law as a life work and with that end in view entered Denver University Law School. In the meantime, however, he had had considerable business experience in a clerical capacity with D. H. Moffat, the well known builder of railroads. Mr. Webb never gave up the idea, however, of becoming a member of the bar and com- pleted his law course In Denver University with the class of 1900, at which time the LL. B. degree was conferred upon him. The same year he was admitted to the bar and began practice alone. No partnership relation has assisted him in winning a clientage. On the contrary individual merit and ability have gained for him the creditable place which he occupies in professional circles. He soon demonstrated his ability to success- fully cope with intricate and involved legal problems and has conducted much important litigation.
Mr. Webb belongs to the Denver Club and the Denver Country Club, associations which indicate the social strain in his nature. Fraternally he is connected with Union Lodge, No. 7, A. F. & A. M .; with Denver Chapter, No. 2, R. A. M .; Coronel Commandery, K. T .; and El Jebel Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. His religious faith is that of the Episcopal church and in political belief he is a democrat. In 1904 he served as county commissioner and has also been supervisor for the city and county of Denver. His public record, like his private life, is most commendable and his circle of friends is coextensive with the circle of his acquaintance.
DONALD HAROLD, JR.
Alert, wide-awake and energetic, Donald Harold, Jr., is occupying the position of manager with the Pueblo Marble Company. He was born November 17, 1889, in Pueblo, where he yet makes his home, his parents being Donald H. and Margaret A. (Lytle) Harold. His father took up his abode in Pueblo about thirty-six years ago and was the pioneer stonecutter of the city. He carried on business for a long period on the site of his son's establishment and remained an active and representative business man of Colorado to the time of his demise, which occurred in 1916. For a considerable period he had survived his wife, who passed away in 1901.
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Their son, Donald Harold, Jr., was a pupil in the public schools of Pueblo and after acquiring a good education he joined his father in the work of stonecutting and afterward was sent to Vermont to learn all details of the trade. He thoroughly acquainted himself with the various branches of work there and with broad knowledge and experience he returned to Pueblo and took charge of the Pueblo branch of the business, while his father concentrated his efforts and attention upon the management of the branch of the business which he had established in Denver. Donald Harold, Jr., proved adequate to the demands made upon him in connection with the management of the Pueblo business, which at his father's death he took over and has since successfully owned and controlled. He has built up a large trade in this connection and the Pueblo Marble Company is regarded as a business concern well worthy of the patronage and trust of the general public. They have erected some of the finer monuments and tombstones used in local cemeteries and also in various other parts of the state.
On the 30th of December, 1913, Mr. Harold was united in marriage to Miss Vera Guild and to them has been born a daughter, Francine. Mr. Harold is a republican in his political views yet does not hold himself strictly to party ties and especially at local elections considers the capability of the candidate above all else. Fraternally he is connected with the Woodmen of the World. Thoroughness characterizes Mr. Harold in everything that he has undertaken and in his business career he has ever held to high standards of service and efficiency, while the artistic worth of his work as well as his enterprising methods and reasonable prices have won to him a patronage that is most desirable and creditable.
SAMUEL M. GOODMAN.
When with Masonic honors Samuel M. Goodman was laid to rest, Greeley lost one of her representative citizens-a man who had contributed much to the business develop- ment and to the moral uplift of the community in which he resided. His life, therefore, constituted an integral chapter upon the pages of the city's history. He was born in Austria, April 24, 1866, a son of Solomon and Hannah Goodman. The father died when the son was but four years of age and the latter afterward remained with his mother, a twin brother and five sisters until he was eleven years of age. At that time he and his twin brother, Joseph, came to the United States, landing at New York, from which point they proceeded to Youngstown, Ohio, where his sister, Mrs. Herskowitz, was then living. He remained for a short time and afterward went to Dunkirk, Ohio, where he visited another sister, who had come to America after he had crossed the Atlantic and had mar- ried in this country. He made his home with her for six or seven years and there attended school, gaining most of his education at that place. When twenty years of age he left his sister's home and went to California, settling at St. Helena, where he was employed in a clerical position for about two years. He then came to Colorado, making Greeley his destination and continuing his residence there for a year. On the 28th of June, 1893, Mr. Goodman was united in marriage to Miss Clara Inez Law, a daughter of Dr. Gulielmus Law, an honored pioneer, who is mentioned elsewhere in this work.
In 1893 Mr. and Mrs. Goodman left Greeley and removed to Durango, Colorado, where he was employed for four years in a clerical capacity. In 1897 they returned to Dunkirk, Ohio, where he engaged in business with his brother, the partnership continuing for two years. In February, 1899, they came to Greeley and purchased the establishment known as the Greeley Cash Store, which was later conducted under the name of the Goodman & Neill Clothing Company. Mr. Goodman was the founder and active head of the business and made it the leading store of the kind in Greeley. He continued the sole owner until 1900, at which time William Wasley was admitted to a partnership. Later Mr. Wasley sold his interest to M. J. Neill and that association was maintained until the death of Mr. Goodman. Mrs. Goodman, however, still retains an active interest in the business. Through his undaunted enterprise, keen sagacity and unfaltering energy Mr. Goodman built up a business of very extensive proportions and was regarded as one of the most prominent representatives of commercial activity in Greeley.
To Mr. and Mrs. Goodman were born the following named: Catherine D., who was horn in Durango, Colorado, and is now the wife of Grover Overmier, of Greeley, who is in the United States naval service as a first-class radio operator; Kenneth L., who was born in Greeley and is a student in the Greeley high school; and Russell E., who was born in Greeley and attends the grammar school.
Mr. Goodman was a thirty-second degree Mason and member of the Mystic Shrine, being connected with El Jebel Temple. He was likewise identified with the Benevolent
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Protective Order of Elks. He and his family attended the Unitarian church. He passed away September 28, 1914, at the comparatively early age of forty-eight years, and his death was the occasion of very deep and widespread regret not only to bis immediate family but to the entire community as well. He displayed many sterling traits of char- acter that endeared him to those with whom he came in contact. He was truly a self- made man, Almost from the age of eleven years he depended upon his own resources, earning his living much of the time from that age, and whatever success he achieved in life was attributable entirely to bis persistency of purpose, his sound judgment and his close application. He had many admirable characteristics and he stanchly stood for all that contributes to the material and moral support of the community in which he lived.
DENNIS DAILEY.
The late Dennis Dailey was among the honored pioneers of this state, having arrived in Denver by ox team in 1859. After going through the Indian troubles and assisting in subduing the red men he turned his attention to farming and stock raising, becoming very successful in this line of business. Although his demise occurred over thirty years ago, he is still remembered by many of those who had the honor of his closer acquaintance. He was born March 8, 1837, in New York state, twenty-five miles from Niagara Falls, and was one of thirteen children. His death occurred July 27, 1887. at Fort Morgan, Colorado, when he was in his fiftieth year.
In his home district Mr. Dailey received his first schooling and remained a resident of New York until fifteen years of age, when he decided to throw in his lot with the development of the west and proceeded to Burnett, Wisconsin, where he took up agri- cultural pursuits, continuing along that line until twenty-two years of age. At that period of his life he removed to Omaha, Nebraska, and from there continued by ox team to Denver, arriving in Colorado in March. 1859. Mostly all arrivals at that period turned their attention to mining and Mr. Dailey also took up prospecting in Blackhawk and Central but shortly thereafter homesteaded a tract of land on Boulder creek and from that time on he successfully followed farming and stock raising throughout the remainder of his life. In the early '60s he assisted in subduing the Indians as a member of the Tyler Home Guard, taking a distinguished part in this campaign. In his agri- cultural pursuits he followed the most modern methods and was ever ready to embrace the latest discoveries along this line of work. Upon his farm he introduced the latest machinery and instituted facilities which enabled him to raise large crops, which he disposed of to good advantage. He was also prominently connected with stock raising and very successful along that line.
On November 11, 1858, in Burnett, Wisconsin, Dennis Dailey was united in mar- riage to Juliette Green, a daughter of Nathan N. and Harriett (McDonald) Green, natives of Vermont. Mrs. Dailey was born November 15, 1840, and was a direct descendant of General Nathaniel Greene of Revolutionary war fame. She passed away January 10, 1914, having survived her husband for over a quarter of a century. She was num- bered among the pioneers of Colorado, having come to the state in 1861, in which year her husband returned to Wisconsin, where their marriage had occurred in 1858, in order to bring her to the new home which he had prepared for her in the west. Mr. and Mrs. Dailey had the following children. Mrs. Hattie Nelson, the eldest, is de- ceased. Dempster H., of Briggsdale, Colorado, married Laura Christy. Hawley G. has also passed away. Bertie Dailey married Sherman L. Work, a mining man of Denver, on April 30, 1890, and has the following children: Enzor L., who was born September 14. 1893, and who married Hattie Lewis. by whom he has a daughter, Bertie. born December 27, 1917; Inez B., born October 7, 1897; and Sherman L., born May 2, 1900. Lulu married Daniel M. Ott, a farmer of Fort Morgan. June 8, 1888, and they have become the parents of the following named: Lawrence M., born April 21. 1889, interested in timber property at Fort Garland, Colorado; Barton Havre, who was born May 26, 1891, and is now serving his country in France in the famous United States Marines; Jessie, born August 20, 1895; Bertie I., born January 20, 1897, who married Warren B. Hillman. now in the naval service; and D. Maurice, born September 8, 1903. Imogene married Fred Baker, of Fort Morgan, and has the following children: Carlton, who married Clara Mott, by whom he has a son, Carlton Jr .; Harry, who is serving his country on the hospital ship Mercy; and Aletha, the wife of Ralph A. Smith, of Denver. Dexter, deceased, married Alice Dunaway, who survives with their two children, Claude and Dorothy, and resides at Idaho Springs, Colorado. Fred B., also deceased, was married to Ida Doran, who survives with their two children, Doris and Mildred, the
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family making their home at Douglas, Arizona. Iver H .. the youngest of the family of Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Dailey, is a resident of Fort Morgan, Colorado. He married Bess L. Baker and is now serving as clerk of the district court.
Great honor is due to those pioneers who in the early years of the opening up of the mountain west took their fate into their hands and dared to cross the prairies in order to establish a home in a wilderness yet untouched by civilization. If it had not been for their courageous efforts the rapid progress of this prosperous state might have been delayed for many years and many of the peaceful and beautiful homes which have since sprung up might not be seen. As one of these pioneers distinction is due to Dennis Dailey, for he was one of those who assisted in planting the seeds of eastern civilization in western fields. While he attained individual prosperity as the just re- ward of his labors, he at the same time contributed much toward the development of his section. He was an American citizen in the best sense of the word, for he was always ready to cooperate in movements for the public welfare and gave freely of his time and means in order to better pioneer conditions and bring about improvements which would facilitate the intercourse between the farms and towns; which would raise edu- cational standards, and which would improve the administration of public office. While a modest man and not desirous of public honors, he was well informed concerning the issues of his time and took great interest in the affairs of his community, county, state and nation. To his family he was a loving husband and father who would exert every effort in order to provide for them adequately in regard to material as well as spiritual welfare. He took pride in having his children well educated and by every possible means instilled into them the highest principles of manhood and womanhood. To them his memory is sacred, but outside of the closer family circle there were many who called him friend and who esteemed him for his high qualities of character, the righteous- ness which guided him in all of his dealings with his fellowmen, and his kindness of heart-and all those who had the honor of his closer acquaintance deeply deplored his death when he passed away at the comparatively early age of fifty years. He has not been forgotten by them, as it is hardly within human nature to forget an honorable man, who in his kindly way brought much sunshine to those who came in contact with him.
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