"JOHN McCORMICK is a successful agriculturist of Weld County, his home being on section 24, township 1 range 69, half a mile east of Berthoud. In addition to following general farming and stock-raising he has dealt quite extensively in live stock, buying, selling and shipping...His comfortable house, built of brick, was the first one constructed of that material in this locality. His barn is one of the largest and best in the neighborhood. The prosperity which he now enjoys is entirely the result of his own labors, for, when he arrived in America, in early manhood, he was a poor Irish boy...Now he ranks with the best farmers and citizens of this county and is always counted upon to do whatever he can to advance the welfare of the public. As one of the stockholders of the Partners' Mill and Elevator Company, of Berthoud, he has been actively interested, this being one of the most beneficial institutions of this section of the county. Born in County Clare, Ireland, June 4, 1840, our subject is a son of John and Margaret (McMahon) McCormick, who were well-to-do farmers. When he was seventeen years of age John McCormick, Jr., came to the United States with his married sister, Mrs. Mary S. Slashary. He worked in the iron foundries of Philadelphia for about a year, and then proceeded westward as far as Blackhawk County, Iowa, where he had an uncle living. In his employ he continued five years, at the expiration of which period he concluded to come to Colorado and embark in mining enterprises. >From 1872 until 1875 he followed mining and prospecting, in company with his brother Martin, who had come to America at the same time, in 1857. They were in Central City much of the time and the mountain altitude did not seem to agree with our subject. Therefore he went to Golden and engaged in railroading and coal-mining, later working on the Gulf Railroad, which was then in process of construction between Cheyenne and Longmont. When the line was completed he was made foreman of the Loveland section, and five or six months afterward took charge of the Berthoud section. This he worked on for nearly three years, and in the meantime had bought one-quarter of a section of land near Loveland, renting the same. While employed on the Berthoud section he became the purchaser of the farm where he now makes his home...His home ranch comprises one hundred and sixty acres, and besides this he owns another place of similar extent, about eight miles distant, which homestead he rents. January 14, 1884, Mr. McCormick married Miss Phoebe McCafferty, who is a native of the northern part of Ireland, but has lived in America since she was eighteen years old. This worthy couple have no children of their own, but have taken into their hearts and home two little ones, Katie and Thomas, aged respectively twelve and seven years. They are the children of Mr. McCormick's sister, Kate, wife of James Roach, of County Clare, Ireland. They made the journey from their far-away home in Ireland with a friend to Chicago and from there alone as far as Denver, where their uncle met them. In 1887 he and his wife made a three months' visit in Ireland. Politically he is a Democrat. In religions faith he and his wife are Catholics, attending the church at Longmont. http://www.memoriallibrary.com/CO/1898DenverPB/pages/pbrd1018.htm 1900 CO Larimer Co., Berthoud Pct [1910 John and Phoege still there, 1920 gone]McCormick John 48 Ire b. May 1852 farmer img'd 1868 Phoebe 46 Roach - both children img'd 1897 Katie 9 Ire b. Jan?1841 Thomas 14 Ire b. Dec 1886 1880 Precinct 8, Little Thompson, Larimer County, Colorado John McCormick 32 Ire single section boss Bridget McCormick, sister 22 Ire apparently not related, but in same household: John O'Hern 32 Ire RR section hand John Ward 45 Ire RR section hand James Murphy 21 IN farm laborer parents: Ire posted by Sharon Carberry (tracking McMahons in a general way)