Robert Emmett Morrison |
| Posted 2018-05-28 by Judy Wight Branson |
| The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, Arizona Wednesday, January 5, 1927, page 4, column 3 Bob Morrison Noted Arizona Figure Is Dead Robert E. Morrison, Arizona pioneer and for many years a leading fighter in legal and political circles of the state, died at his home in Prescott yesterday morning at 10:30 o'clock. Morrison had been in ill health for several months, his condition becoming critical about two weeks ago. He was past 71 years of age. Funeral services will be held at Prescott tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock, with burial there. Morrison is survived by four brothers, A. L. Morrison, Jr., John V. Morrison, Hugh O. Morrison, and Joseph E. Morrison; one sister, Sister M. Dolorene; three daughters, Mrs. Morris B. Carpenter, Mrs. Naughton Farrell and Mrs. C. McDonnell, and one son, Emmet T. Morrison. Morrison was a native of Chicago and was educated in the schools of that city, after which he graduated from the Union College of Law. He engaged in practice of law in Chicago until 1883, when he came to Arizona and entered the cattle raising business in Apache county. Three years later he was elected county judge of that county under the law which had been passed by the territorial legislature. Later he opened a law office in St. Johns. He moved to Prescott in 1891 and the following year was elected district attorney of Yavapai county, serving two terms. In 1898 President McKinley appointed him United States attorney for the territory of Arizona. He served again as district attorney of Yavapai county for the term beginning in 1906. Although a Republican, and prominent in the councils of his party, he was always returned to office by handsome majorities in that rock-ribbed Democratic county. Morrison was a very successful practitioner. He was so not only because of his knowledge of law, but because of the clarity with which he presented his cases and his manner of riveting attention upon the main issues. That was a peculiarity especially striking to newspaper reporter who interviewed him on law cases or political subjects. His statements were offered in such a logical and natural way that they could be followed without the aid of notes and without confusion. Joseph Scott, formerly president of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and well known attorney of that city, thought so highly of the ability of Morrison as a lawyer that he sent his son, A. A. Scott, to study law in the office of his old friend and at the time of the veteran attorney's death, his pupil had returned from Los Angeles to pay him his last respects. Morrison was a son of Judge A. L. Morrison, who was for several years a police magistrate in Chicago and later served as United States marshal for New Mexico and registrar of the federal land office at Santa Fe. Still later, he served the territory in the legislature. Transcriber's note: Mr. Morrison is buried at the Mt. View Cemetery in Prescott, Arizona. See Also: Arizona Gravestone Photo Project |
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