MORROW, JACKSON: 1849-1930.
Jackson Morrow , son of Charles and Sarah Lamb Morrow, who moved to Howard County in 1845, was born on a farm south of Kokomo, Ind., on Mar. 3, 1849.
When he was eight years old, he attended a two months' term of winter school in a log cabin, and when he was fifteen, he attended Kokomo Normal School for the fall term. At sixteen he was licensed to teach. For two years he taught a country school near Alto during the winter and attended Kokomo Normal during the fall terms. He entered the University of Michigan when he was nineteen and graduated four years later. In 1873 he married Mary E. Henderson. They lived on his farm in Harrison Township, Howard County, and he taught school when he was not farming.
Mr. Morrow held several public offices, including those of trustee, county surveyor, civil engineer of Kokomo , and police commissioner. His first wife died in 1891, and in 1905 he married Mrs. Myra Bird. They moved to Kokomo in 1898.
Mr. Morrow died at his farm on Aug. 5, 1930.
Information from the Carnegie Public Library of Kokomo .
- History of Howard County, Indiana.
Indianapolis, 1909. 2
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