John Morton, a retired farmer living in New Hartford. He was born in Hadley, Massachusetts, in 1835 and came to Iowa in 1858. In 1861 he enlisted in the Fifteenth Iowa Volunteer Infantry and served during the entire course of the Civil war. His wife, Emma Cumming, was born in Ohio in 1850 and died in 1909. They had five children: Nina A., who has passed away; Anna S.; Ida I.; Charles A.; and Myra.
SOURCE: Irving H. Hart, History of Butler County, Iowa, Vol. 2, p. 286, abstracted from biographical sketch of Robert G. Wolfensperger.
No comments:
Post a Comment