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JOHN BENJAMIN MORROW
MORROW, JOHN BENJAMIN, Motor Vehicles, Los Angeles, California, was born at Gibraltar, Michigan, June 10, 1865, the son of George Morrow and Mary (Alford) Morrow. He married Maize F. Gotshall, at Miles, Iowa, November 6, 1889, and there are three children, Helen M., George A., and Benjamin S. Morrow.
He was educated in the public schools of Trenton, Michigan, and graduated in 1882. He went to work for the Canada Southern Railroad, and until 1888 was in their shops, drove an engine, and was train dispatcher. Then he became a commercial telegraph operator, worked in many cities, and in 1892 was employed by Edward L. Brewster & Co., stock brokers of Chicago. In 1894, W. H. and J. H. Moore, capitalists, who controlled the Diamond Match Co., New York Biscuit Co., and Rock Island Railroad, employed him in a confidential capacity. He left them to join the Chicago Board of Trade. He identified himself with Schwartz, Dupee & Co., among the largest stock and grain brokers in the world, with J. F. Harris & Co., and in 1904, when the firm of Charles G. Gates & Co. was formed he became a partner, handling the Chicago and Western end of their business. In 1907 when the firm dissolved, he associated himself with John H. Wrenn & Co., of Chicago, and after a year with J. J. Townsend & Co., brokers, in 1910, he moved to Los Angeles. There he formed the firm of Morrow, Loomis & Co., and has become one of the largest handlers of automobiles on the Coast. He is a director of the firm of Wagner & Co., Chicago, and other eastern corporations.
He is a member of the South Shore Country Club, Exmore Golf Club, Germania Club, Chicago Yacht Club and Chicago Athletic Club, of Chicago, and the Delavan Yacht Club of Delavan, Wisconsin.
Transcribed 5-31-10
Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 431, International News Service, New York, Chicago, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta.
1913.
© 2010 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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