Robert Scott "Bob" McMorran

1874 - 1953  (79 years)

• Name	Robert Scott "Bob" McMorran
  Born	25 Mar 1874	Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Gender	Male
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-146170
  Died	17 Nov 1953	Lawton, Ramsey, North Dakota, United States
  Buried	Inkster Cemetery, Inkster, Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States
  Person ID	I146170	Generations
  Last Modified	7 Nov 2024

  
  

  Father	James McMorran,   b. 1830, , Scotland ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Louisa Scott,   b. 8 Aug 1832, Hawick, , Roxburgh, Scotland ,   d. Apr 1875, Valleyfield, , Quebec  (Age 42 years)
  Family ID	F29899	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Robert Scott McMorran was born in Hespler, Ontario, Canada on March 25, 1874. He came to Inkster, North Dakota by train in April, 1899. In July of that same year, he filed a claim on a homestead four miles east of Lawton, North Dakota, which he farmed for nine years. He married Margaret Ann Horrocks in February 1905. She was born in Harriston, Ontario, Canada December 5, 1884, and came with her parents to North Dakota. After leaving the farm in 1909, Mr. McMorran ran the Farmer's Grain Elevator in Lawton. From 1913 to 1915, the McMorran's lived in Derrick, North Dakota, where he managed the Farmer's Elevator. In 1915 they moved back to Lawton where he managed the Lawton Farmers Elevator until 1920. In the fall of 1919 he bought the present William McMorran farm. The family moved to the farm in 1922 after living in the Whalen house in Lawton since 1915. Mr. McMorran managed the Lawton Farmers Elevator from 1931 to 1935 and the Farmers Union Oil Company from 1937 until his retirement in 1941. They bought and made their home in the Sigurd Hagen house in Lawton..... Find A Grave

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 25 Mar 1874 - Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - 17 Nov 1953 - Lawton, Ramsey, North Dakota, United States Buried - - Inkster Cemetery, Inkster, Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States  = Link to Google Earth