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CHARLES JOHNSTON MORROW, farmer, post office White Ash, was born Oct. 18, 1829, on the farm where he now resides, a grandson of Henry Morrow, who came from Ireland, and settled in Penn township about 1795. He died in his eighty-fourth year, the father of ten children: Ann (Fisher), Mary (Wilson), William, Elizabeth (Morrow), Henry, John, James, Hugh, Sarah (Johnston) and Jane (Duff). The fifth child, John, born in 1791 in Franklin county, married Jane Johnston, born in Wilkins in 1797. He died in 1873, his widow in her seventy-ninth year. He was a member of Beulah Presbyterian Church, and afterward an elder in Hebron U. P. Church; an anti-masonic whig, and a republican; served as school director and overseer of the poor. He had three sons and three daughters: Henry, Eliza Jane (Mrs. Benjamin Kelley), Sarah B. (wife of John Duff), Mary M. (Wilson), Charles J. and John Hanna. The second and sixth are deceased, and the others dwell in Penn township. On his death Mr. Morrow left his farm to his two youngest sons. Charles’ portion consists of ninety-five acres, on which he has always resided. In 1871 he married Isabella Miller, born in Wilkins, a daughter of William and Sarah Miller, of Ireland. Three of Mr. Morrow’s children died in infancy, and he has one son living, named Hugh Wilson. Mr. Morrow is an elder in the U. P. Church; politically a republican with prohibition tendencies. In October, 1885, he had a cancer successfully removed from the left side of his upper lip.