The Montana Standard
Saturday, December 1, 1928
page 20

PIONEER OF STATE DIES AT KALISPELL

Kalispell, Nov. 30 - David Morrow, who came to Montana in 1864, driving an ox team from Denver, died at his home here early Wednesday morning. He was 76 years old and had lived in Kalispell for 21 years. The funeral will be Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
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'The River Press,' Fort Benton, MT
5 December 1928, page 8:

David Morrow, a resident of Chouteau county and Fort Benton from 1868 until 1906, passed away at his home in Kalispell, Montana, on last Wednesday morning, after an illness of several days. Mr. Morrow was one of the pioneers of this section of the state. He was born in Canada on October 12, 1852, at Perth, Ontario, and was taken by his parents to Iowa in 1857, moving with them to Denver, Colorado, in 1860, where they resided until 1864. In that year they started overland by ox team for Montana. David's father drove two yokes of oxen and one of cows, and he driving two yokes of oxen, and Malcolm, another son, driving (?) head of cattle. The Morrow family finally arrived at Virginia City by way of Bridger cutoff and Soda Springs. In 1866 David, Malcolm and Wm. T., of this city, freighted from Fort Benton to Helena with three yoke of oxen to each wagon and received $2.00 per (?) for their hauling. The route was over Medicine hill and Lyons hill. In 1868 David and Malcolm went into the cattle business and located in Rock Creek basin where they kept stock until 1878 when they moved to Fort Benton and turned their stock on the Shonkin range. David was married January 12, 1882, to Miss Sarah E. Travis of Helena, and to this union 11 children were born, nine of whom survive him. The David Morrow family left Fort Benton in 1906 and moved to Kalispell where he purchased an orchard home and has resided (there) since that time. The three brothers, David, Malcolm and Wm. T. hunted buffalo in 1871 at Benton Lakes on the old Helena-Benton road and at one time it was estimated that there were over 5,000 buffalo in sight of their camp. The three brothers had a world of experience in frontier life and perhaps witnessed as much action of the real west as any other family of boys.

Mr. Morrow leaves to mourn his passing his wife, and nine children - three sons and six daughters, Herbert, John, Eugene, Esther, Ella, Alma, Edna, Mildred and Elizabeth; one brother, William T. Morrow of this city; three sisters, Mrs. Geo. W. (?), Mrs. J. Adams, of Great Falls, and Mrs. Martha Scott, of Bremerton, Washington; a number of grandchildren and a large circle of friends over Montana. Funeral services were held Sunday at Kalispell and interment made in the local cemetery.
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