Alexander Morrow Biography Hancock County, WV ********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ********************************************************************** Submitted by Dale Patterson Copied from " History of the Panhandle, being Historical Collections of the Counties of Ohio, Brooke, Marshall and Hancock, West Virginia". Compiled and Written by: J.H. Newton, G.G. Nichols, and A.G. Sprankle Published by: J.A. Caldwell, 1879, Wheeling, W. VA. Biographical Sketches of Hancock County: Alexander Morrow: was born in Tyrone County, Ireland in 1821. He emigrated to America in 1842. Landing in New York City, he continued his journey westward until he reached Freeman's Landing, where he stopped and made his home in Hancock County, West Virginia since that time. He married Rachel Jane Shanley, daughter of Wm. Shanley, in 1856. They settled on the farm where they are now living. They have a family of four children, three sons and one daughter.