Jay Johnson Morrow

Jay Johnson Morrow ( born February 20, 1870 in Fairview, Northampton County, Virginia; † April 16, 1937 ) was an American engineer and officer of the United States Army Corps of Engineers.

Life and work

Morrow was born in 1870 in Virginia. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, where he graduated in 1891, and at the Engineering School of Application, where he graduated in 1894. In 1895 he married Harriet M. Butler ( † 1935), the marriage remained childless. After three years as an instructor at the U.S. Military Academy Morrow in 1898 ordered to the Philippines, where he served from 1901 to 1902 as the military governor of the province of Zamboanga, after his return to the United States, he was there from 1907 to 1909 Engineering Commissioner of the District of Columbia.

Since 1916, Morrow was employed as an engineer with servicing and maintenance of the Panama Canal. His activities there was interrupted by the entry of the United States in the First World War. On 26 June 1916 he was promoted from Colonel to Brigadier General. 1919 Morrow returned back to Panama and continued his engineering work.

1921 Morrow was appointed by President Warren G. Harding as Governor of the Panama Canal Zone, to replace the former Governor Chester Harding. He held until 1924 this office.

Morrow died on 16 April 1937. His ashes were, as formerly, scattered the ashes of his wife in the Río Chagres.