Background
Morrow, Thomas Robert was born on January 24, 1857 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Son of John and Margaret (Campbell) Morrow.
Morrow, Thomas Robert was born on January 24, 1857 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Son of John and Margaret (Campbell) Morrow.
Bachelor of Arts, Yale, 1880, Bachelor of Laws, 1882 (John A. Porter Prize).
Entered office of Lathrop & Smith, Kansas City, Missoury, 1882. Became member Lathrop, Morrow & Fox, January 1, 1885, now Lathrop, Morrow, Fox & Moore. 1st general attorney, Kansas City Southern Railway Company.
Solicitor for A.,T.&San Francisco Railroad for Missouri and Iowa, since 1905.
Was the first to announce the rule that transportation of freight by railroad common carriers is interstate, notwithstanding the fact that the points of origin and destination of the shipment are both in the same state, if in the natural course of the haul the shipment has to traverse the soil of another state (decided by Supreme Court of the United States, 1902). Police commissioner, Kansas City, May 2, 1891-February 9, 1893.
Mason.
Married Flora East. Burt, July 3, 1883.