Husband Joseph Caldwell Morrow 1 2 3
AKA: "Colonel" Morrow 4
Born: 31 Dec 1851 - East Huntingdon Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 2 5 6
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Father: John C. Morrow (1825-1903) 5 6 7 8 9
Mother: Elizabeth Sheppard (1826-1910) 5 6 7 8 9
Marriage: 18 Sep 1873 2 5
• Additional Image: J. Caldwell Morrow.
Wife Amanda Walthour 2 4 5
Born: 10 Jun 1853 - Westmoreland Co, PA 2
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Father: Michael Walthour ( - ) 2 5 10 11
Mother: Cordelia Miller ( -Aft 1906) 2 11
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1 M Emmet Ray Morrow 2 4 5
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Spouse: Ida Erwin Burnstein ( - ) 2
Marr: 14 Nov 1910 2
2 M Clarence Morrow 2 5 12
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3 F Maude Morrow 2 5 12
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4 M Merrill C. Morrow 2 12
AKA: Morrill Clyde Morrow 5
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5 M Joseph Caldwell Morrow, Jr. 2 5 12
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6 F Mabel Clara Morrow 2 5 12
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7 M Charles A. Morrow 2 5 12
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General Notes: Husband - Joseph Caldwell Morrow
He received his education in the common schools of Westmoreland and Allegheny counties, Pennsylvania, and Madison Normal school. From ten to twelve years of age he resided with James Hutchinson, then rejoined his parents, who had previously moved to Buena Vista, in Allegheny County, and at sixteen years of age began teaching in order to procure the means with which to complete his education. He taught the first school in Scottdale borough. After six years teaching, in 1872 he engaged in the business of auctioneering. He sold goods in sixty counties of Pennsylvania, thirteen different States of the Union and in selling goods traveled in and through twenty-three states. He also dealt in real estate, was a partner of J. M. Wood in two stores, one at West Newton, Westmoreland County, and the other at Rochester, Beaver County, and was also interested in another store at Sutersville.
He was a strong democrat, a member of Scottdale Lodge, No. 885, Inde-pendent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of Maccabees and the Methodist Episcopal church. He was the first local editor of the Scottdale Tribune, corresponded for different papers throughout the United States and was favorably known as a press reporter.
He is a large and fine-looking man, weighing 245 pounds, intelligent, courteous, tall and commanding.
He was reared at home until his tenth year, when he became an inmate of the home of James L. Hutchinson, going to school in the winter months and working on the farm. Here he got his title of "Colonel" which he retained until his death. Mr. Hutchinson was a Presbyterian and did not like the Methodist minister, Mr. Caldwell, after whom young Morrow was named, and refused to call him by that name but called him "Colonel" instead. The title became recognized all through the neighborhood and "Colonel" Morrow he remained until his death. He spent two years with Mr. Hutchinson and the following two years with Thomas Drennen, of Buena Vista, Pennsylvania, after which he returned to his home and parents. At the age of sixteen, after the necessary preparation, he began teaching in the public schools. After Scottdale was created a borough, March 6, 1874, he became the first principal of the borough schools. He taught for six years and then began the exercise of his great natural gift, public auctioneering. He became a great local success and did practically all the public selling in the counties of Westmoreland and Fayette. His fame spread abroad and he was called to thirty-eight states throughout the Union, all of which furnished him business, and the value and importance of his selling transactions grew in proportion. In 1900 he removed to Pittsburgh and became especially interested in the sale of real estate. He had phenomenal success in that line and sold farms and city lots to the number of tens of thousands. He was the official auctioneer of the Fidelity Title and Trust Company, of the Guarantee Title and Trust Company and of the Safe Deposit Trust Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. At public auction, May 5, 1905, he sold the Smith Block at the corner of Sixth and Liberty streets, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for one million, one hundred and seventeen thousand dollars and consumed twenty minutes in making the sale. He handled the public sale of the Pittsburgh & Western railroad to the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, the price paid being twenty million dollars. Mr. Morrow was largely interested in private and corporate enterprises in several states and was a well-known figure on the Pittsburgh Stock Exchange. He inherited not only the mental characteristics of his forbears but some of their physical attributes as well. He stood six feet in height and weighed two hundred and fifty pounds.
He had experience also in the newspaper world, first as the local editor of the Scottdale Tribune and later as correspondent and contributor to various newspapers throughout the country. He was a member of the Pennsylvania Society, Sons of the American Revolution; the Independent Order of Odd Fellows; the Maccabees and the Royal Arcanum.
General Notes: Wife - Amanda Walthour
She was born on the historic farm between Irwin and Adamsburg, Pennsylvania, on which was located "Fort Walthour", during the French and Indian wars.