Snyder Family 2016 - Person Sheet
NameLewis Sterling Morton 
Birth20 Aug 1835, Ohio
Death22 Feb 1912, White Bird, Idaho Co., Idaho
Alias/AKALucius
Spouses
Birth1838, Knox Co., Illinois
Death1 Jan 1914, Blair, Washington Co., Nebraska
FatherPeter Jones (1802-1856)
MotherCarolyn Fink (1805-1888)
Marriage7 Sep 1856, Knox Co., Illinois
ChildrenMary Caroline “Carrie” (1857-1924)
Thadeus Oscar (1860-1917)
Notes for Lewis Sterling Morton
Minnesota Land Records Minnesota Land Records Name: Lewis S Morton Land Office: WINONA Document Number: 47 Total Acres: 160 Signature: Yes Canceled Document: No Issue Date: 1 Dec 1856 Mineral Rights Reserved: No Metes and Bounds: No Statutory Reference: 3 Stat. 566 Multiple Warantee Names: No Act or Treaty: April 24, 1820 Multiple Patentee Names: No Entry Classification: Sale-Cash Entries Land Description: 1 SE 5TH PM No 110 N 20 W 32
Source Information: United States, Bureau of Land Management. Minnesota Land Records [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 1997. Original data: United States. Bureau of Land Management. Minnesota Pre-1908 Homestead and Cash Entry Patents. General Land Office Automated Records Project, 1995.
1860 United States Federal Census 1860 United States Federal Census Name: S A Douglass Morton Age in 1860: 1.12 Birth Year: abt 1860 Birthplace: Illinois Home in 1860: Salem, Knox, Illinois Gender: Male Post Office: Yates City Value of real estate: View image Household Members: Name Age L S Morton 25 Catherine Morton 22 Cardine Morton 3 S A Douglass Morton 1.12 Thos Beagle 42 Lydia Beagle 38 Hannah Beagle 15 Anson G Beagle 13 Ellen Beagle 12 Abed Beagle 10
Source Citation: Year: 1860; Census Place: Salem, Knox, Illinois; Roll M653_195; Page: 627; Image: 293.
Source Information: Ancestry.com. 1860 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Eighth Census of the United States, 1860. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1860. M653, 1,438 rolls.
Of Interest: It appears that Lewis used the alias of Lucius after he abandoned his family. Below is his story:
An Illustrated History of North Idaho, Embracing Nez Perces, Idaho, Latah, Kootenai and Shoshone Counties, State of Idaho, Western Historical Publishing Company, 1903, p. 549: "Lucius L. [sic] Morton, of the firm of Morton & Johnston, leading stock and mining men of southern Idaho county, lives two miles southwest of Lucile. He was born in Tennessee in 1832, the son of Elijah and Mary (Alexander) Morton, natives of New Jersey, pioneers of Illinois in 1833. The father fought in the war of 1812 and also in various Indian struggles in Illinois. Our subject was educated and grew to manhood in the Prairie state, being favored with a course in the academy at Galesburg. His early days were spent in bookkeeping; then he went to Rice county, Minnesota, for three years. Then he came to Illinois and thence to Colorado, mining in all the various and leading camps while there until 1860. Next we see him in the Alder gulch country and he dug gold on the site of the Helena before a white man's habitation was there. The Idaho camps attracted him next and after that he was in South Pass, Wyoming, in the white pine country, Nevada, and then at Baker City, Oregon. 1882 found Mr. Morton mining in the Seven Devils country, which he thinks to be one of the rich sections of the west. Various other camps were visited by him and finally in 1893 he discovered the Blue Jacket on the Salmon river. He has done over a thousand feet of work on it. The same year he went into partnership with Revillo Johnston which relation has continued until the present time. In 1894 Mr. Johnston took his present ranch and in addition to the prosperous stock business which they handle they are heavily interested in mining. They own the Golden Crown group and other property. Mr. Morton has never been back to see his people in Illinois since 1860. He has one brother, Charles, in Oregon, and two, Henry and James, in Illinois. Mr. Morton is a Democrat. After seeing the various mining countries of the west he is satisfied that Idaho county possesses some of the most valuable mineral deposits known and when transportation facilities are better it will be shown to be one of the greatest mining sections yet discovered."
see:
http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Lewis_Morton_(2)
Source Information: United States, Bureau of Land Management. Minnesota Land Records [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 1997. Original data: United States. Bureau of Land Management. Minnesota Pre-1908 Homestead and Cash Entry Patents. General Land Office Automated Records Project, 1995.
1860 United States Federal Census 1860 United States Federal Census Name: S A Douglass Morton Age in 1860: 1.12 Birth Year: abt 1860 Birthplace: Illinois Home in 1860: Salem, Knox, Illinois Gender: Male Post Office: Yates City Value of real estate: View image Household Members: Name Age L S Morton 25 Catherine Morton 22 Cardine Morton 3 S A Douglass Morton 1.12 Thos Beagle 42 Lydia Beagle 38 Hannah Beagle 15 Anson G Beagle 13 Ellen Beagle 12 Abed Beagle 10
Source Citation: Year: 1860; Census Place: Salem, Knox, Illinois; Roll M653_195; Page: 627; Image: 293.
Source Information: Ancestry.com. 1860 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Eighth Census of the United States, 1860. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1860. M653, 1,438 rolls.
Of Interest: It appears that Lewis used the alias of Lucius after he abandoned his family. Below is his story:
An Illustrated History of North Idaho, Embracing Nez Perces, Idaho, Latah, Kootenai and Shoshone Counties, State of Idaho, Western Historical Publishing Company, 1903, p. 549: "Lucius L. [sic] Morton, of the firm of Morton & Johnston, leading stock and mining men of southern Idaho county, lives two miles southwest of Lucile. He was born in Tennessee in 1832, the son of Elijah and Mary (Alexander) Morton, natives of New Jersey, pioneers of Illinois in 1833. The father fought in the war of 1812 and also in various Indian struggles in Illinois. Our subject was educated and grew to manhood in the Prairie state, being favored with a course in the academy at Galesburg. His early days were spent in bookkeeping; then he went to Rice county, Minnesota, for three years. Then he came to Illinois and thence to Colorado, mining in all the various and leading camps while there until 1860. Next we see him in the Alder gulch country and he dug gold on the site of the Helena before a white man's habitation was there. The Idaho camps attracted him next and after that he was in South Pass, Wyoming, in the white pine country, Nevada, and then at Baker City, Oregon. 1882 found Mr. Morton mining in the Seven Devils country, which he thinks to be one of the rich sections of the west. Various other camps were visited by him and finally in 1893 he discovered the Blue Jacket on the Salmon river. He has done over a thousand feet of work on it. The same year he went into partnership with Revillo Johnston which relation has continued until the present time. In 1894 Mr. Johnston took his present ranch and in addition to the prosperous stock business which they handle they are heavily interested in mining. They own the Golden Crown group and other property. Mr. Morton has never been back to see his people in Illinois since 1860. He has one brother, Charles, in Oregon, and two, Henry and James, in Illinois. Mr. Morton is a Democrat. After seeing the various mining countries of the west he is satisfied that Idaho county possesses some of the most valuable mineral deposits known and when transportation facilities are better it will be shown to be one of the greatest mining sections yet discovered."
see:
http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Lewis_Morton_(2)