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Welcome to Morrow County OhGenWeb


Morrow County OHGenWeb is a free genealogical and historical collection of information provided by volunteers. We hope you find helpful clues for your research of ancestors and relatives of Morrow county.

This Morrow County site is a proud part of the OHGenWeb and The USGenWeb Project.


Morrow County Was Established

Morrow is one of Ohio’s newest counties, having been formed February 24, 1848,
from parts of Richland, Knox, Marion, and Delaware counties.

Mount Gilead

Our new county then contained 258,560 acres of land, which were divided into sixteen townships and named for Jeremiah Morrow, a resident of Warren County and Governor of Ohio from 1822 to 1826.

Mount Gilead, the county seat, was laid out by Jacob Young on September 30, 1824, in what at the time was Marion County. Originally called Whetsom, the name of the village was changed to Mount Gilead in 1832 by the Ohio legislature; it was incorporated in 1839.

 

 


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