Background
Morrow, William W. ,, Indiana 1843 1929 Male Congressman Jurist jurist and congressman from California, was born near Milton, Wayne County, Ind. , of Scotch-Irish parentage, the son of William and Margaret (Hood) Morrow.
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Education
When he was about three years of age, his parents moved to Adams County, Ill. , where he attended the common-schools and heard Lincoln, Douglas, and Trumbull trying cases and speaking upon political issues.
Career
In 1859 he moved to Santa Rosa, Cal. , where he worked as a harness-maker and taught school.
Later in the same year he went east and enlisted in the Union army.
He was active in introducing private or local bills and resolutions but made few extended speeches, although he advocated a more stringent Chinese exclusion law, the free coinage of silver, and a survey of the possibilities of irrigating arid lands in the Far West.
One of the best-known cases coming before him as circuit judge was In re Noyes (121 Fed. , 209), or the "Nome Case, " growing out of the gold discovery in Alaska.
The facts in this case formed the basis of Rex Beach's novel, The Spoilers.
(See Morrow's explanatory article, "The Spoilers, " California Law Review, January 1916. )
During his judicial career, he is said to have handed down more than 650 decisions.
In 1905 he became an incorporator of the American National Red Cross, upon its reincorporation by Congress, and received a medal for his relief work in connection with the San Francisco fire in 1906.
[See: J. G. Jury, "Wm. W. Morrow, " Cal.
Law Rev. , Nov. 1921; Who's Who in America, 1928-29; Biog.
Dir.
Am.
Cong.
(1928); O. T. Shuck, Sketches of Leading and Representative Men of San Francisco (1875), pp. 1071-73; San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, July 25, 1929.
A letter from Morrow in the Lib.
of Cong.
states that his middle initial does not represent a name. ]
Religion
For his services as a member of the American Association for International Conciliation, he was awarded the d'Estournelles de Constant medal by that society in 1925.
Politics
Interested in politics, he was chairman of the California Republican state central committee from 1879 to 1882 and in 1884 attended the Republican National Convention at Chicago as chairman of the California delegation.
Connections
She and two children by his first marriage survived him.
- parents:
- Cassidy
- married:
- E.
- married:
- Hulbert
- Wife:
- Hulbert
Three cases which he decided as district judge were especially important: In re Ezeta (62 Fed., 964), involving questions of extradition; United States vs. Cassidy et al. (67 Fed., 698), resulting from the Pullman strike in 1894; and In re Wong Kim Ark (71 Fed., 382), in which his dictum that a person born in the United States of Chinese parents is a citizen of the United States, under the Fourteenth Amendment, was afterward sustained by the Supreme Court.
On Dec. 31, 1927, he was married to Julia E. Neill.
His wife, Margaret Hulbert, whom he had married at Santa Rosa on June 18, 1865, died in 1926.
His wife, Margaret Hulbert, whom he had married at Santa Rosa on June 18, 1865, died in 1926.
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