T. BENTON MORROW
Thomas Benton Morrow located at Grove City in the' fall of 1858. He removed to his present location, on section 18, in the fall of 1870. He came from Ohio to Iowa.
Thomas Benton Morrow is the son of William and Maria T. (Potter) Morrow, and was born on the 31st of May, 1835. He was reared in Ohio, and in the fall of 1858, he came to Cass county, and located at Grove City. He and his brother owned one hundred and sixty acres of land in the east part of the city of Atlantic, the fair grounds cover the land. He came to his present location on section 18, Atlantic township, in 1870, where he owns one hundred acres of land, all under cultivation, and raises some of the finest stock in the township. When he first came to this county there were plenty of deer and prairie wolves, and he was engaged in driving the stage on the western line from Des Moines to Council Bluffs. Mr. Morrow was married in September, 1871, to Hannah E. Disbrow, a native of Ohio. They have three children--Addie E., Belle and Ethel.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 840-841.
