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== Biography ==
WKM grew up a Roman Catholic, first in Shaker Heights, Ohio. The youngest sibling of the family, his father died when he was 6 years old. His mother soon moved back to near her home town of Buffalo. <ref>http://www.ancestry.com/1940-census/usa/New-York/William-K-Morrow_fmvgb</ref><ref>http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/t/h/o/Mark-Thompson-10/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0074.html</ref>
His SSN is 282-30-0086 Issued: Ohio <ref>http://sortedbybirthdate.com/pages/19311104.html </ref>
His father died in 1938 when WKM was six, and his mother went on to start a career as a real estate agent and never re-married. He attended Shaker Heights High School.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaker_Heights_High_School</ref> Late in life, William visited the area and felt that it was in some decline. His best friend in high school was Wesley Ray, who went on to become a dentist in San Francisco. William graduated from the Catholic University of America in 1952 with a degree in architectural engineering.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_University_of_America</ref><ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architectural_engineering</ref> He then was commissioned as an officer of the U.S. Navy in the SeeBees; he never saw action.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seabee</ref>
In the Navy, he worked at the Naval Station Argentia in Newfoundland, where he met his wife.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Station_Argentia</ref> They were introduced at an officer's party by her father, who as a contractor at the station.
Around 1956, he moved his growing family to at or near 243 Sheppard Avenue, Kenmore, NY 14217. He attended Mass at St. John the Baptist Church and sang in the men's choir. He later advised the church on some building matters. He enjoined jogged and attending professional sports events such as football and hockey games.
Around 1959 he started a partnership, R. P. Morrow Associates, with his brother, Robert. He was not careful to read the legal paperwork about the partnership. After two years, Laura started to press that he read the legal paperwork. He discovered that his brother had created him as a Junior Partner and he left that partnership.<ref>http://buffalo.citysearch.com/profile/7743988/buffalo_ny/r_p_morrow_associates.html</ref><ref>http://www.macraesbluebook.com/search/company.cfm?company=1323183</ref>
In December 1961 he moved the family to 315 Crosby Avenue, Kenmore NY 14217.
After the partnership breakup, he initially went to work in sales selling refractory brick.
Around 1961, he was arrested for a DUI where he attempted to evade the police. This incident was reported in the Village of Kenmore newspaper. His supervisor was understanding and allowed him to keep his job.
He then worked for some other companies, including Cannon Design.<ref>
http://www.cannondesign.com/</ref> Around 1971, he earned his NYS professional engineering license and stamp.<ref>http://www.op.nysed.gov/</ref>
In 1972, he moved his family to the house at 210 Beechview Avenue, Jamestown, NY 14701 and worked at Netzger Thorsel and Dove P.C., hoping to move into a management position.<ref>http://www.yellowpages.com/jamestown-ny/mip/thorsell-carl-p-archct-pc-office-512125180?lid=512125180</ref> His family attended SS Peter & Paul RC Church on 508 Cherry Street.
While in Jamestown, he rented the Crosby house to the assistant conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and his family. Their son, Tony Collura, would later attend SJCI.
When no promotion came after two years, he moved his family back to the Crosby Avenue, Kenmore house. During one of the last visits to the Beechview house, he drank beer all day while his wife Laura complained that she was having her friendships uprooted again. When the whole family was in the station wagon, just a few blocks away from the Beechview house, WKM struck Laura in the breast with his clenched fist and Laura left the car and went home to Kenmore in a taxi. They made up later that night.
WKM started his own practice back around Kenmore, NY. It was called something like William K. Morrow PC. He would end up occasionally bidding for contracts in competition with his brother Robert's firm, sometimes winning and sometimes losing to his brother. After moving his office around, he purchased the office building at 802 Kenmore Ave, Buffalo, NY 14216 . He primarily worked as a subcontractor to architectural firms. As of 2016, many of the buildings that he did the engineering designs on are still standing.
His business thrived and he bought the cottage in Canada at 12869 Old Lakeshore Road, Wainfleet, Ontario Canada L0S 1V0 . The family often went there on weekend in the summer. He purchased a 14 foot sailboat that he and his children enjoyed on Lake Erie.
His employees, mostly draftsmen, were loyal to him and he paid them above the standard pay scale.
In the Spring of 1979 or so, Bill and his sons Andrew and Paul, went to open up the cottage in Canada for the season. His two sons struggled to get the water pump in the basement working. They kept priming the pump with water obtained from a neighbor, but it was not working. What they did not know was that the foot valve had corroded and was leaking out the water. While his sons struggled, Bill had little to do. Bill was a beer drinker, but there was not beer around. He then opened up the liquor cabinet that his wife Laura kept stocked and started to drink some hard liquor. When his sons came up from the basement, Bill was intoxicated and was making statement that were out of character for him. He then attempted to drive home with his sons, but he did not get far. He got out of the car and vomited. His sons took him back to the cottage to avoid the RCMP and to sleep it off. Laura drove up to the cottage when the group did not come back home to Kenmore and the sons explained what had happened. The next day, Bill said that the last thing he remembered was pouring that first drink. He drove home with Andrew and explained the 1961 drinking arrest to him. Andrew was deeply impressed and avoided hard liquor for the next few decades.
Throughout their marriage, Bill and Laura remained best friends and the family endured. He was home almost every night for dinner and the children were home for dinner also while they were still in high school. They occasionally had their friends over for dinner parties and Bill would play some of his favorite music on the Philip hi-fi during after dinner drinks. Overall, it was a loving and stable home to grow up in.
Bill's business prospered, but the stress of running his own business for ten years helped to cause his heart attack in 1984. He was hospitalized, but he suffered a second fatal heart attack on the day he was supposed to come home. Since he died alone in the bathroom (without any hospital staff present), an autopsy was performed. It showed extensive atherosclerosis and, had he lived, he would have required perhaps a triple bypass surgery.
He had ample life insurance and left his family financially secure.
He is buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Tonawanda.<ref>https://www.google.com/maps/place/Kenmore,+NY+14217/@42.9926561,-78.8825274,25m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x89d36d10b8fdd40b:0x764e2929072ab8b4!8m2!3d42.9658907!4d-78.870036</ref>
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* http://amorrow2.wikidot.com/william-knight-morrow
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