Ancestry of
Joy Morton

Founder of Morton Salt Company

Julius Sterling Morton

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• • Father of Joy Morton — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • Julius Dewey Morton 
  • Mother:
  • Emeline Sterling   
  • Birth Date:
  • 22 Apr 1832 
  • Birth Location:
  • Adams, Jefferson, New York 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 27 Apr 1902 
  • Death Location:
  • Lake Forest, Lake, Illinois 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Wyuka Cemetery, Nebraska City, Otoe, Nebraska 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Caroline Joy
  • Marriage Date:
  • 30 Oct 1854 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Detroit, Wayne, Michigan 
  • Child:

  Joy Morton (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  • Notes: 

  • Founder of Arbor Day

    3rd U.S. Secretary of Agriculture

    Acting Governor of Nebraska

• Sources for Julius Sterling Morton

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A063189, #A081654, #A124778 and #A124774.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 11/23/2015).
  • ³ The Conservative (Nebraska City, Nebraska), Vol. 4, No. 47, 29 MAY 1902, pp. 1-20.
  • ⁴ Caswell, Lilley B., Athol, Massachusetts, Past and Present, Athol, Massachusetts: Published by the Author (1899), 236-238.
  • ⁵ Lee, Helen Bourne Joy, The Joy Genealogy, Essex, Connecticut: The Pequot Press, Inc. (1968), 116, 159-160, 222-224.
  • ⁶ Nason, Emma (Huntington), Old Hallowell on the Kennebec, Augusta, Maine: Press of Burleigh and Flynt (1909), 180.
  • ⁷ Sterling, Albert Mack, The Sterling Genealogy, New York: The Grafton Press (1909), 517.
  • ⁸ Wikipedia, "Julius Sterling Morton", (accessed 11/23/2015).