Sacramento County
Biographies
RODNEY J. MORRISSEY
RODNEY J. MORRISSEY.--The many improvements and the general advancement in the matter of real estate and insurance brokerage that have made that field of commercial and financial endeavor in California more satisfactory of recent years may well be ascribed, in part, to such far-seeing, experienced and progressive operators as Rodney J. Morrissey, the genial president of the popular Carmichael Company, whose offices are at 811 J Street, in the capital city. He was born in Tehama County, California, first seeing the light on a farm on January 28, 1879, the son of James B. and Nellie (O'Hair) Morrissey, his father having come out to California in 1875, while his mother had preceded Mr. Morrissey here, from Iowa, when she was a little girl. He was a farmer, and is still honored as a man able to supervise a day's extensive work; Mrs. Morrissey breathed her last in 1917, leaving a blessed memory.
Rodney Morrissey attended the public schools, although even as a boy he was called upon, by unfavoring circumstances, to make his own way. He worked for the Holbrook, Merrill & Stetson Company, which was succeeded by the Miller-Enright Company, wholesale suppliers to plumbers, and he was next with the Standard Oil Company, at Sacramento. In December, 1906, he made his first venture with real estate, joining Messrs. Wright & Kimbrough; and he remained with them until August, 1919, when he became vice-president of the Carmichael Company. He came to his new responsibility equipped with an exceptional preparation and experience, having previously taken a business college course that offered him much for his present line of endeavor. Mr. Morrissey is a successful, self-made man, and represents in a very interesting manner the Carmichael Company, with its admirable methods and exemplary standards, now admittedly one of the most prominent real estate and insurance firms in all Sacramento County. This corporation continues to lead the real estate and insurance business in Sacramento. In February, 1923, the Morrissey brothers, including R.J. and E.G. Morrissey, became the owners of this corporation, and the business is being successfully continued at the same address.
In 1904, Mr. Morrissey married Miss Cecelia M. Hooke, a native daughter of Sacramento. He belongs to Parlor No. 26, of the Native Sons of the Golden West, and Lodge No. 6, of the B. P. O. Elks, and is a Mason of the third degree.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Taylor.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Page 562. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA.
1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.