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About Joseph Curran Morrison
- Joseph Curran Morrison (August 20, 1816 – December 6, 1885) was a lawyer, judge and political figure in Canada West. He was born in Ireland in 1816 and came to Upper Canada with his family in 1830.
- He studied at Upper Canada College, studied law, articled with Simon Ebenezer Washburn and was called to the bar in 1839.
- In 1848, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly for the West riding of York.
- He was elected to represent Niagara in an 1852 by-election after Francis Hincks was elected in both Niagara and Oxford; Morrison was reelected in 1854.
- He served on the Executive Council as solicitor general from 1853 to 1854.
- In 1856, he was named receiver general, serving until 1858.
- He served as director and later president for the Ontario, Simcoe and Huron railway.
- He prosecuted the case against Grace Marks and James McDermott in 1853 and, in 1860, prosecuted James Brown for the murder of John Sheridan Hogan.
- He was named a puisne judge in the Court of Common Pleas in 1862 and named to the Court of Queen's Bench the following year.
- He heard the case against 11 persons charged in the 1866 Fenian raids.
- In 1877, he became a member of the Court of Appeal for Ontario serving until 1885.
- Morrison was chancellor of the University of Toronto from 1863 to 1876.
- He died in Toronto in 1885. His brother Angus was a member of the Canadian House of Commons and a mayor of Toronto.
- His daughter Mary Morrison married Arthur Sturgis Hardy, Ontario's fourth Premier.
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