N.C. State Professor Dies Unexpectedly, 1956

From the June 1956 issue of North Carolina’s Extension Farm-News

A long life of active service to North Carolina Agriculture was ended July 18 with the unexpected death of E.B. Morrow, professor of horticulture at N.C. State College.

A heart attack was the cause of death.

Morrow spent many productive years working to develop new and better varieties of strawberries and blueberries. Among those he developed are the Massey and Albritton strawberries, which are used extensively by commercial growers. He also developed the Wolcott, Murphey, Angola, and Ivanhoe blueberry varieties, which have meant much to growers of this crop.

After graduation from N.C. State College in 1921, he received B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of California, the latter in 1924.

From 1924 to 1925, he was an assistant in statistics in the N.C. Department of Agriculture. He worked with the Extension Service for 11 years as a horticulturist, after which he began his work with the Experiment Station. He has written several publications on his research findings.

He has contributed many articles to American Society of Horticultural Science, which have been published in their annual proceedings.

Morrow was born in Rowan County March 22, 1896, and was married to the former Miss Anne Peay. He was a member of the American Society for Horticultural Science and Sigma Xi.

Surviving are his wife, his mother, Mrs. Tom Morrow of Cleveland, N.C.; four brothers, Fred W. Morrow and J. Mack Morrow, both of Mooresville, and A.R. Morrow of Charlotte, and Thomas A. Morrow of Cleveland, N.C.; four sisters, Mrs. W.W. Lentz of High Point, Mrs. Carl Cook of Statesville, and Mrs. F.S. Sloan, and Mrs. J.A. Shackford, both of Raleigh.