Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1915
BIOGRAPHIES
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H. P. MORROW

The career of H.P. MORROW has been a strenuous and varied one, entitling him to honorable mention among the representative citizens of Harrison County, although he is no longer a resident of this county. His influence, however, still pervades the lives of a wide circle of friends and acquaintances he made during an extended residence in Harrison County. The success which he has attained has been due greatly to his steady persistence, rugged integrity, excellent judgment and genial disposition, qualities which have also won for him the confidence and esteem of the public.

H.P. MORROW, the son of Patrick and Elizabeth (HASSON) MORROW, was born March 17, 1844, in Toronto, Canada, and came with his parents to Harrison County, Iowa, in the spring of 1856, settling near what was then known as Soldier Bridge, two and one half miles northeast of where Mondamin now stands.

Mr. MORROW's early life was not especially different from that of other young men whose parents brought them to pioneer homes in Harrison County. He was educated in the pioneer schools of his neighborhood and performed the usual work which fell to the lot of the boys of his locality. In 1864, Mr. MORROW went to Colorado and shortly after his arrival there, enlisted in the 3d Colorado Cavalry and performed distinguished service as a soldier in the Union Army.

Ten years later, in 1874, Mr. MORROW was married to ROSE A. FERGUSON, daughter of William and Susan (MCFEELEY) FERGUSON, who was born in Rensselaer County, New York, December 6, 1853, and came with her parents to Harrison County in 1860. The FERGUSONs first located in Magnolia, but in 1870 moved to a farm north of that place where Rose A. FERGUSON resided at the time of her marriage. To H.P. and Rose A. (FERGUSON) MORROW 11 children have been born as follows: Mrs. M. T. McEvoy; Patrick, who died at age sixteen; William E., who died in infancy; Mrs. G.L. Gamet; Mrs. W.L. Stuart; Rose I.; Mrs. Joseph Toben; Mrs. W.G. Finley; Agnes M, who died in infancy; H. Philip and P. Joseph.

After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. MORROW located on a farm in Allen township where they resided 19 years. Mr. and Mrs. MORROW found the educational facilities of Allen township somewhat meager, and in 1895 moved to Missouri Valley in order that their children might possess better educational advantages. Five years later, in 1900, the MORROWs moved to Mondamin, where Mr. MORROW engaged in the general merchandise business until 1908. In that year, he sold out his mercantile business and two years later filed a claim for a homestead in Colorado. This claim was proved up in 1911. In 1912, Mr. and Mrs. MORROW and four of their children took up their residence in San Diego, California, where they are now living.

H.P. MORROW is remembered as one of the substantial citizens of Harrison County, a men who was well known for his upright character, his unswerving fidelity to public or private duty and his interest in all things that pertain to the welfare of a community. Mr. and Mrs. MORROW have lived to rear a large family who, in the declining years of their parents, respect them and honor them with the love of sons and daughters who themselves have enjoyed a large measure of parental devotion. H.P. MORROW is a men of noble instinct, who well merits the esteem in which he is held by the people of Harrison County.

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