Ulysses G. Morrow timeline.

1864 Morrow born in Kentucky.

1878 Morrow must have been a teenager in 1878 [12 years old!], when he "became connected with the Advent movement." Since that time, he had "passed through several successive stages of investigation of time prophecies and systems of theology and science." [BS]

1888 Phonography, or Phonetic Shorthand. What it Is, and How to Learn it. Copyright, Ulysses G. Morrow, 1888, Corning Iowa, published by the Author. The title page lists "Ulysses G. Morrow, Stenographer to First National Bank, of Corning, Iowa, Treasurer of the Iowa state Sunday School Association, Principal of Corning School of Shorthand, and Author of the Improved Method of Postal Instruction." [This may well have been a correspondence school only, and Morrow may have been the entire faculty. Morrow would have been only 22 at the time. -DES]

1888-94 Morrow edited small newspapers, including The Plowshare and the Pruning-Hook and The Salvator and the Scientist.

1894 In 1894, when William Carpenter officially retired from the zetetic fray, he wrote, "We have the satisfaction, as we retire from the fray, of announcing our greatest confidence in the advocacy of U. G. Morrow, Esq., Allegheny, Pa., who is the learned editor of the Herald of Glad Tidings, and also in the efforts put forth by the staff of the Earth Review, London, England." His confidence in Morrow as a zetetic (flat earther) obviously was misplaced! [BS]

1894 In Earth Review, v. 1, n. 7 (May 1894), p. ii., Carpenter notes that Herald of Glad Tidings is published in Allegheny. He essentially accuses Morrow of plagiarizing One Hundred Proofs, the editor's Sun-dial, and [the writings of] "Parallax." [BS] ["Parallax" was one pseudonym of flat-earther Samuel Bierly Rowbotham. --DES].

1894 In Earth Review, v. 1, n. 8 (July 1894), p. 183, L. T. Jones of Baltimore notes that Ulysses G. Morrow, editor of the Herald of Glad Tidings, is "boldly advocating" flat-earth theory. [BS]

189? Morrow edited other small newspapers, including The Plowshare and the Pruning-Hook. and The Salvator and the Scientist.

1894 In Earth Review, v. 1, n. 6 (March 1894), p. 134, it is noted that one U. G. M. was taking up the subject of Natural & Bible Astronomy in the Herald of Glad Tidings, including the Enspherical Form of the Earth. (This could only have been Ulysses G. Morrow.) [BS]

1894 Flaming Sword, v. 8, n. 3 (September 1894), comments on The Herald of Glad Tidings, saying that it is a bimonthly whose editor advocates a "modification of the Zetetic philosophy originally propounded by 'Parallax,' of London." [BS]

1895 In Earth Review, v. 2, n. 2 (January 1895). p. ii, U. G. Morrow of 26 Overlook Street, Allegheny, PA, is noted as a new agent [for their flat-earth publications]. On p. 45ff, Morrow explains his system in a long letter. [BS]

1895 Morrow converted from "Eclectic Philosophy" to Koreshanity in 1895 and became editor of their newspaper, The Flaming Sword.

1897 According to Earth Review, January-March 1897, p. 27, Morrow defected to Koresh and quoted Lady Blount out of context to suggest that she did, also! Apparently, Lady Blount had a letter published in a January ('95 or '96?) issue of Flaming Sword. [BS]

1897 In Earth Review, v. 4, n. 1 (January-March 1897), p. 6ff, is an article "The Earth not Convex nor Concave: An Authentic Experiment Proving Modern Astronomy and Koreshanity to Be Gigantic Fallacies," purportedly extracted from Herald of Glad Tidings, #14. Either Morrow was a liberal editor, or he no longer controlled the publication. [BS]

1897 Teed, wanting concrete experimental evidence of his hollow earth model, asked Morrow to carry out measurements of the water surface near Naples, Florida. Morrow invented a "rectilineator", a 12 foot long structure of mahogany and brass with which to establish a straight "physical" line over long distances. [DES]

1897 Morrow wrote the greater part of Teed's 1897 book The Cellular Cosmogony. Much of it was extracted from issues of The Flaming Sword. [DES]

1905 In Earth #57 (April 1905), p. 112f, Lady Blount says that she studied Koresh's writing "at the express wish of a friend I had esteemed, and who, alas! had been seduced from the truth into the errors of Koreshanity. That friend sent me Koresh's writings, with an earnest appeal begging me to study them; therefore I did so." I suspect that this friend was Ulysses G. Morrow. [BS]

1908 Elliott J. Mackle, The Koreshan Unity in Florida, 1894-1910", p. 141, says that Morrow resigned as editor of The Flaming Sword in the December 15, 1908 issue, citing differences in interpretation of astrology, and he then left the colony. That issue was published exactly a week before Koresh died. [BS]

1908-1950 Morrow continued to promote and develop the hollow earth idea, being in contact with groups in Argentena and Germany who also believed it. Editions of The Cellular Cosmogony after 1905 dropped all mention of Morrow, but continued to use large sections of what he wrote. Morrow worked as a typesetter at a newspaper in New Orleans. [DES]

1936 Morrow still advocates the Hollow Earth idea, as indicated in a newspaper interview. [DES]

1950 Morrow dies in New Orleans. [DES]