Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, ed. 8-B,
Pulaski County

Hon. Thos. Z. Morrow, circuit judge of the Eighth Judicial District of
Kentucky, was born in Fleming County, Ky., in the year 1835, a son of
Alexander S. and Margaret (Boyd) Marrow, natives of Pennsylvania.  Alexander
S. Morrow was born in 1792 and first settled in Paris, Ky., then moved to
Flemingsburg, and subsequently to Danville; he was a merchant and hotel
keeper, and died in February, 1862, the father of six children, three of
whom are living, viz: Ann E., W.B. and Thomas Z.  Judge Morrow was educated
at Centre College, Danville, Ky., where he graduated in 1855, a class-mate of
Breckinridge, Gov. Crittenden, of Missouri, Judge Phillips, of Missouri, Dr.
Holloway, of Louisville, F.T. Fox and others.  He then entered the law
department of the Transylvania University of Lexington, and graduated in
1856.  He taught school at Milledgeville, Lincoln County, for six months,
and in 1857 went to Somerset, Ky., and took charge of a Democratic paper,
which he edited one year.  In 1858 he was elected county attorney of Pulaski
County, and in 1861 was elected as a union man to the Legislature.  In 1862
he entered the Federal army and served as Lieutenant Colonel of the
Thirty-second Kentucky Infantry nine months.  He then returned to Pulaski
County, Ky., and practiced law.  In 1865 he was elected State Senator, which
office he resigned in 1866, and being appointed United States Assessor for
the Eighth Collection District, served in that capacity until 1869.  In 1870
he moved to Topeka, Kan., and remained fourteen months, then returned to
Somerset, Ky. and again engaged in the practice of the legal profession.  In
1876 he was a delegate to the Cincinnati Republican Convention which
nominated Hayes for President.  He was also Republican Elector for the State
at large.  In 1883 he was the Republican nominee for governor; in 1884 was
chairman of the Republican State central committee; in 1886 was elected
Commander, department of Kentucky, Grand Army of the Republic, and in the
same year, was the Republican candidate for circuit judge for the Eight
Judicial District, and, overcoming a Democratic majority, was elected by 862
votes.  December 24, 1858, Judge Morrow married Virginia C. Bradley, of
Garrard County, KY, a daughter of R.M. and Ellen (Totten) Bradley, and
sister to Hon. Wm. O. Bradley, who was the late Republican nominee for
Governor of Kentucky.  Judge and Mrs. Morrow are the parents of nine
children, eight of whom are living, viz: W.A., Mary C., Thomas Z., JR.,
Robert B., Samuel S., Wilson B., Charles H. and Edwin P.  W.A. Morrow was
born May 18, 1862, was educated at what is now Depauw University, Green
Castle, Ind., where he graduated in 1880.  He then read law under his father
and was admitted to the bar in 1881.  In December, 1885, he married Flonnie
Hall of Somerset.  Mary C. Morrow was educated at Bell Seminary, Danville,
Ky., graduated in 1883, and in June, 1887, married C.D. Portwood.  Thomas Z.
Morrow, Jr., was educated at the State University, Lexington.  Judge Morrow
and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church.

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