U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Morrow, James, Jr. (1837-1888) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Source: Bench and Bar of West Virginia Author: Geo Wesley Atkinson, LL.B., LL. D. Virginia Law Book Company; Charleston, W.Va.; 1919 Page 26, Hon. James Morrow, Jr. Few citizens of the State have made greater impress upon the community in which Providence placed them than the subject of this brief sketch. He was born in Brooke County, Virginia, May 26, 1837. His boyhood was passed upon his father's farm, and in the neighborhood schools. Ohio and Pennsylvania both contributed to a classic education of later years; he studied law as opportunity occurred for several years, and in 1862 was admitted to the Bar of Illinois. In 1865 he began practice in Fairmount, West Virginia. Marion county electors chose him to represent their interests in the Legislature in 1871, and again in 1881. In the House he was popular and influential in shaping the legislation of those years, serving on the important Committee of the Judiciary. He was one of the Special Court in the contest case of Harrison against Lewis for Judge of the Second Circuit, and voiced the opinion of the majority of the Court; and was counsel for Auditor Bennett and Treasurer Burdett in their attempted impeachment before the West Virginia Senate in 1875-6. Urbane in manners, strict in integrity, Democratic, but conservative, in politics, and properly ambitious for exalted responsibilities, however difficult or laborious, yet modest in urging his own preferment, he was peculiarly sensitive of unfair criticism and neglect. At the State Convention of his party at Huntington, in 1888, he was a formidable candidate for the gubernatorial nomination. He held many appointments from the Governor upon State Boards and was elected to numerous county positions of trust. After severe mental afflictions, November 19, 1888, he passed into the Great Beyond. He was one of the most erudite lawyers the State of West Virginia has produced. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Additional Information: --------------------------------------------------------------------- DEATH RECORD Marion County WV, Death Record Book 1, page 101 Name: James Morrow, Jr. Date-of-death: November 17, 1888 (differs from the bio.) Age-at-death: 51 Cause-of-Death: Paralysis Occupation: Lawyer --------------------------------------------------------------------- There's a large flat memorial tombstone in Maple Grove Cemetery (Fairmont, WV) that ends with: our mother Mary Virginia Wilson Morrow whose body rests here d/o Dr. Noah Linsly Wilson and Mary Canby Gilpin Wilson born in Washington D C Jan 19, 1841 entered eternity April 9, 1921 and in Honoured memory of her husband our father James Morrow Jr. 1837-1888 Eminent Jurist Member Supreme Court U. S. A. Friend and Counseleor of the poor Scholar and peer of any man at rest in Oak Hill, Georgetown D. C. - - - - - - - - This memorial is placed by their children Carlotta Laetitia Morrow Margaret Gilpin Morrow 1925 --------------------------------------------------------------------- CENSUS RECORDS 1880 Census, Marion County WV ED: 85, Union District, Page no. 2 Lines 1-5, Dwelling 223, Family 334 MORROW, Jas. Jr. (40), Lawyer, WV-VA-VA ", Mary V. (33) wife, WV-VA-VA ", Challotta T (14) dau, WV-VA-VA ", Maggie J (12) dau, WV-VA-VA HAYMOND, R. (75) Aunt, WV-VA-VA - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1870 Census, Marion County WV Union Township, PO: Fairmont, Page No. 30 Lines 26-31, Dwelling 216, Family 217 MORROW, James (45) Lawyer, $2,000, VA ", Mary V (27), keeping-house, Va ", Carlotta S (5), Illinois ", Maggie G (1), WV HAYMOND, Margaret (65) WV SMITH, Lizza (15), Domestic-servant, VA ---------------------------------------------------------------------