William W. Morrow (1843 - 1929)

Born 15 Jul 1843 in Wayne, Indiana, United States

Husband of Margaret (Hulbert) Morrow — married 18 Jun 1865 in Sonoma, California, United States

Descendants

Died 24 Jul 1929 at age 86 in San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States

Biography

William Morrow is Notable.

William was born in 1843 in Milton, Wayne County, Indiana, Morrow moved with his parents to Adams County, Illinois, in 1845 and attended the common schools and received private instruction. He moved to Santa Rosa, California, in 1859 and taught school and explored mining regions. He went east in 1862 during the American Civil War to join the Union Army and served with the National Rifles of the District of Columbia, an independent militia, serving in the Army of the Potomac. He was a special agent for the United States Department of the Treasury from 1865 to 1869, and was detailed to California, where he undertook confidential assignments for the United States Secretary of the Treasury. He read law and was admitted to the bar in 1869. He entered private practice in San Francisco, California, from 1869 to 1870. He was an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of California from 1870 to 1874. He assisted in organizing the San Francisco Bar Association in 1872 and served as its President in 1892 and 1893. He resumed private practice in San Francisco from 1874 to 1885. He was Chairman of the Republican state central committee of California from 1879 to 1882. He was an attorney for the California State Board of Harbor Commissioners from 1880 to 1883. He was also a special United States Attorney before the French and American Claims Commission from 1881 to 1883, and before the Alabama Claims Commission 1882 to 1885. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1884.

Morrow was elected as a Republican from California's 4th congressional district to the United States House of Representatives of the 49th, 50th and 51st United States Congresses, serving from March 4, 1885, to March 3, 1891. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1890. He briefly returned to private practice in San Francisco in 1891.

Morrow married Margaret Hulbert (October 1, 1847-August 26, 1926), a native of Iowa, on June 18, 1865 in Sonoma, California. Together they had four children:

• William Hulbert Morrow (1868-1930); married Katherine Dillon Hinkle (1870-1955) and had one daughter, Arabelle Morrow Mann (1893-1963).
• Maurice Morrow (1869-1870)
• Maud Morrow (1873-1926); married on October 13, 1893 to then Lieutenant (later Rear Admiral) Augustus F. Fechteler, who served during the Spanish-American War, Philippine-American War, and World War I in the United States Navy. They had five children (see below).
• Eleanor Morrow (1879-1958); married Henry Latrobe Roosevelt (1879-1936) on January 15, 1902. He served as a United States Assistant Secretary of the Navy from 1933 to 1936. He was a great-grandson of Nicholas Roosevelt (inventor), 3rd cousin of 26th President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt, 5th cousin of 32nd President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt, and 3rd cousin once removed of First Lady of the United States Eleanor Roosevelt.

He passed away in 1929.

Sources

• United States Congress. "William W. Morrow (id: M001006)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

See Also:

• Wikipedia contributors, "William W. Morrow," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_W._Morrow&oldid=1096471733 (accessed August 30, 2022).