Person

Henry Clay Morton (Louisville, Kentucky, banker)

b. 1819-01-18 d. 1892-07-25

Louisville, Kentucky, merchant and banker. Lexington, Kentucky, native. Married to Prudence Blackburn Morton in Woodford County, Kentucky, on April 14, 1845. Married to Mary A. Quigley Morton in Warren County, Kentucky, on October 8, 1849. Father of Eliza Morton, John H. Morton, Thomas Morton, Henrietta Morton, and Ellen Morton. Merchant in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1850. Private banker in Louisville in 1860. Employed Elizabeth Rodgers as a servant in Louisville in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Louisville in 1860. Banker for Quigley, Lyons, & Company in Louisville in 1861. Banker in Louisville in 1863. Banker for Hunt, Morton & Quigley in Louisville in 1865.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 3, 282A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 3, pp. 730-1.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 3, p. 265A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 5, p. 561A.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Jefferson County, KY, July 1863, p. 156.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Warren County Marriages, Film 000164004.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Woodford County Marriages, 000252327.

Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 179.

Edwards' Annual Director to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville, For 1865-6 (Louisville: Edwards, Greenough & Deved, 1866), 452.

"Henry C. Morton Dies at the Home of His Daughter in Lexington," The Courier-Journal, (Louisville, KY), July 26, 1892, p. 4.

"Henry Clay Morton (1819-1892)," Find A Grave, Memorial 9259092 , accessed July 5, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9259092 .

Citation

Morton, Henry Clay. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32206636 (November 12, 2026).

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