STEUBEN REPUBLICAN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1900, page 1, column 5

JOHN K. MORROW, 05 Mar 1825 -14 Dec 1900

   Captain John K. Morrow was born at Mansfield, Ohio, March 5, 
1825, and died at Monteer, Shannon county, Missouri, Dec. 14, 1900, 
aged 75 years, 9 months and 8 days.  His father was a soldier of the 
war of 1812 and was wounded at Lundy's Lane.  Capt. Morrow was 
educated at Oberlin college, Ohio, and at intervals between his 
studies taught school and read law.  He was admitted to the bar at 
Perrysburg, Ohio, and began the profession at Bryan, Ohio, in 1852.  
He married Mary A. M. Coblentz, of Bryan, May 12, 1853, and to them 
were born three children, James H., John M. and one daughter who 
died in 1858.  In 1856, he moved with his family to LaGrange, Ind., 
and in January of 1857 he established the first newspaper of the 
county, the LaGrange Standard, with the motto, "Eternal Hostility to 
the Extension of Slavery."  Being very intent in the advocacy of 
this question, he naturally became patriotic and active on the 
issues of the war of 1861-5.  In the organization of the 100th 
Indiana volunteers he assisted greatly in the make-up of company C 
and was commissioned its first lieutenant August 15, 1862; promoted 
to captain August 5, 1863, but disability required him to resign 
from the army February 29, 1864.  He was mustered a member of B. J. 
Cosswait Post, G. A. R. No. 150, Jan 31, 1884, and continued a 
member until he moved from the state.  The same year he resigned 
from the service he moved to Angola to reside and practice law.  In 
this he took a leading position and won a record and clientage 
surpassed by few only of Angola's attorneys.  The different 
vicissitudes of his business life were varied, yet he was accorded 
courage and ability in his profession.  He was associated in law at 
periods with Hon. Daniel E. Palmer and George B. Adams.  During the 
latter part of his residence in Steuben county he retired from the 
practice of law and lived on a small farm about four miles northwest 
of Angola and served as justice of the peace. In the spring of 1899, 
failing health from army service, with advancing age, induced him to 
move with his family to Monteer, Mo., where he located land, but 
death followed him even there.  His military and Grand Army record 
will be added to the archives of G. A. R. post, No. 150, with taps 
of one more comrade's final muster out.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

>From the "History of Steuben County, IN - 1885", biography of 
Captain John K. Morrow, pages 414, 415, 416, "John K. Morrow, son of 
James Morrow, a native of Dublin, Ireland, who died in 1848 in 
Mansfield, Richland Co., Ohio.  His mother, Mary (Turk) Morrow, a 
native of Scotland, died in 1854, in Williams County, Ohio.  On 12 
May 1853, he married Mary A. (Coblentz) Morrow.  They had 3 
children, two living, James H. and John M. and a daughter who died 
in 1858.

Submitted by:  Mona Hilden-Beckwith
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