Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Morton, William S.T. October 14, 1807 - April 30, 1875
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

Centre Township
p. 354 & 355

William S. T. Morton was born in Hamilton County, Ohio, Oct. 14, 1807, and 
died in Wayne County, Ind., April 30, 1875. His father, James Morton, was a 
native of Scotland, where his name was known as Throckmorton, and came to the 
United States when a young man. He soon after married Maria Caldwell and to 
them were born three children---William S. T., James, who died when a lad, and 
Anna M. The wife died and he afterward married a daughter of John Miller, who 
died July 11, 1826, leaving one son---Oliver P., late Governor of Indiana. 
When William S. T. Morton was sixteen years of age he learned the hatter's 
trade, at which he worked several years. He then carried on an extensive 
establishment several years, but subsequently disposed of his stock and 
embarked in the mercantile business, and at the same time carried on his farm, 
of 300 acres, of excellent land, where his widow now resides. He was a 
thorough business man, a good financier, with practical ideas which he carried 
out in his every day life. He married Charlotte Miller, who died, and he 
subsequently married, Jan. 5, 1858, Eliza M. McCollough, a native of Oxford, 
Ohio, and a daughter of Samuel McCullough. To them were born three children---
William S. T., James T. and Clara T.

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