Person

Daniel Morton (Logan County, Kentucky, circuit court clerk.)

b. 1830?

Logan County, Kentucky, circuit court clerk. Kentucky native. Son of Marmaduke B. Morton, Sr., and Nancy Caldwell Morton. Married to Susan E. M. Booker Morton in Logan County, Kentucky, on October 1, 1851. Deputy clerk in Logan County in 1850. Household owned sixteen enslaved persons in Logan County in 1850. Circuit court clerk in Logan County in 1860. Owned fourteen enslaved persons in Logan County in 1860.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Logan County, Russellville, p. 66A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Logan County, Russellville, p. 339.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Logan County, District 1, p. 485.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Logan County, District 1, p. 386A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Logan County, Russellville, p. 510A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Logan County Marriages, Film 002134965.

John M. Gresham Company, ed., Biographical Cyclopedia of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Embracing Biographies of Many of the Prominent Men and Families of the State (Chicago: Donohue & Hennerberry, 1896), 63-4.

Elijah Embree Hoss, David Morton: A Biography (Nashville: Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1916), 1-20.

Citation

Morton, Daniel. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32199378 (November 12, 2026).

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