Background
His father, Thomas Morrow, was of Scotch descent, though the occasional appearance of the name as Moreau indicates a French origin.
His mother, Elizabeth Vaughan, was of English stock.
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Thomas Morrow
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He attended Transylvania University and then went to New York, where he attended a regular medical school and was later graduated from the Reformed Medical College conducted by Dr. Wooster Beach [q. v. ], the "founder of eclecticism. "
In 1830 the Reformed Medical Society of the United States determined to establish a medical school in the Ohio River Valley and accepted the offer of Worthington College to form its medical department.
Morrow was chosen to head the college as president, dean, and professor of materia medica, obstetrics, and theory and practice of medicine.
Career
The new school was called the Reformed Medical College of Ohio.
The Western Medical Reformer was established in 1836 in connection with the school.
Morrow continued practice and private instruction at Worthington until 1842, when he removed to Cincinnati and began at once the organization of a school to succeed the Worthington venture.
When the National Eclectic Medical Association was inaugurated in Cincinnati in 1848 he was elected its first president.
His writings include introductory addresses to the classes of the Cincinnati school and many clinical articles and editorials for the pages of the Western Medical Reformer and its successor, the Eclectic Medical Journal.
He was engaged upon the preparation of a "Theory and Practice of Medicine" at the time of his death.
Physically Morrow was well over six feet in height, weighing two hundred and fifty pounds.
[Hist.
of the Eclectic Medic.
Inst. , Cincinnati (1902); Eclectic Medic.
Jour.
(Cincinnati), Aug. 1850; Alexander Wilder, Hist.
of Medicine (1901); C. T. Greve, Centennial Hist.
of Cincinnati (1904), vol.
II. ]
Religion
Morrow, Thomas Vaughan, , Kentucky 1804 1850 Male Physician pioneer in eclectic medicine, was born at Fairview, Ky.
First named the Reformed Medical School of Cincinnati, Ohio, it was incorporated as the Cincinnati Eclectic Medical Institute in 1845 and as the Eclectic Medical College graduated classes until 1929, when it became extinct.
Politics
He died from dysentery at the early age of forty-six, and was buried in Wesleyan Cemetery, Cincinnati.
Personality
He was a forceful speaker, an able teacher, and a highly successful practitioner both in Worthington and in Cincinnati.
Connections
During his stay in Worthington he married Isabel Greer of that place.
Prince Albert Morrow [q. v. ], noted dermatologist and sociologist, was his nephew.
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Wesleyan