William Gillespie Morrow and Gertrude McElhoes

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Husband William Gillespie Morrow ^{1 2}

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           Born: 20 Dec 1868 - near Rural Valley, Armstrong Co, PA 1 2
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         Father: Dr. John Wilson Morrow, M.D. (1837-1905) 3 4 5
         Mother: Rebecca Malinda MacFarland (1842-1885) 2 3 4

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       Marriage: 24 Dec 1895 or 1896 1 6

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   Other Spouse: Florence Mae Fuellhart (      -      ) 1 6 - 8 Sep 1912 1 6

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Wife Gertrude McElhoes ^{1 6}

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           Born: Abt 1869
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           Died: 24 Mar 1907 1 6
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         Father: John Kinter McElhoes (      -      ) 1 7 8
         Mother: Margaret Thompson (      -      ) 1 8

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Children

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1 F Margaret Gertrude Morrow ^{1 6}

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           Born: 16 Jun 1899 1 6
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2 M John Kinter McElhoes Morrow ^{1 6}

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           Born: 26 Jan 1902 1 6
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3 F Dorothy Rebecca Morrow ^{1 6}

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           Born: 23 Mar 1905 1 6
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           Died: 23 Aug 1906 1 6
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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General Notes: Husband - William Gillespie Morrow

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He matriculated at the Baltimore Medical College in 1895; located at West Hickory, PA, was physician for the lumber firm of Wheeler & Deusenbury, and of the West Hickory Tanning Company. He was an elder in the Endeavor Presbyterian Church.

He completed his preliminary education at Tionesta, Forest County, Pennsylvania, and had the distinction of being a member of the first class to receive regular diplomas from the Tionesta Public School, the standard having been raised by the board, of which his father was a member. After graduating he engaged in teaching for a time, but resigned to accept a clerkship in the Winebiddle Pharmacy, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Later he entered the employ of the Tionesta Lumber Company as a raftsman, delivering their last cut of 2,000,000 feet to points on the Ohio River as far south as Louisville, Kentucky. After this time, he decided to become a physician, and matriculated at the Baltimore Medical College (later the University of Maryland) where, in 1896, he graduated with honors, locating soon after at West Hickory, Forest County, where for more than twenty-five years, he was a physician for the West Hickory Tanning Company. Always a student and ever alert to promote the work of his profession, the doctor took a number of terms of post-graduate work at the Buffalo University.
Dr. Morrow served as physician of the County Home and as assistant surgeon for the Pennsylvania Railroad for a number of years. He was secretary of the School Board during the greater part of his residence in Harmony Township.
Dr. Morrow, from his youth, took an active interest in the work of the church, having been for many years an elder of the Endeavor Presbyterian Church, a congregation which he repeatedly represented in presbyterial and synodical meetings.

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General Notes: Wife - Gertrude McElhoes

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Valedictorian, Clarion State Normal School, 1891

Her parents were descendants of Indiana County's earliest and most highly respected citizens, counting among their number John Kinter and Isaiah Van Horn, patriots of the American Revolution as well as Dutch patroons of Manhattan Island, Isaiah McElhoes, a native of Philadelphia, also a soldier of the Revolution, and Robert Thompson, whose purchase of land from the Penn heirs, recorded on parchment, was long preserved in the family. Through intermarriages, Gertrude (McElhoes) Morrow was also descended from the Cannon, Scott, and Ross families, as well as from Mary (Todd) Findley, sister of General Levi Todd, of the American Revolution, and grandfather of Mrs. Mary (Todd) Lincoln.

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 712.

2 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 55.

3 —, History of the Counties of McKean, Elk, and Forest, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 937.

4 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 711.

5 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 53.

6 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 57.

7 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 870.

8 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 525.