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Below is a family biography included in The History of Adams County, Illinois published by Murray, Williamson & Phelps in 1879. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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MORTON, COL. C. H., real estate, insurance and collection agency, 508 Maine; residence 65 N. 6th; born in Plymouth county, Mass., Aug. 30, 1826, and came with his parents to Hillsboro, Montgomery county, Ill., in 1827, and to Quincy in 1835; married Almira J. Williams in 1861. She was born in Quincy. He studied medicine and practiced ten years in Quincy, until 1861. He went into the army as Major of the 84th Regt. Ill. Inf. and was promoted Lieutenant Colonel in 1863 and commanded the regiment till the close of the war; was mustered out at Franklin with Brevet rank of Colonel in 1865; was elected County Clerk that year; re-elected eight years: elected Police Magistrate in 1874 by a majority of 900, although a Republican in a Democratic city. In 1850 he went to California, overland; was four years away from Quincy, returned by ocean, stopping at the Sandwich Islands four weeks and the Society Islands two weeks.
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This family biography is one of 1444 biographies included in The History of Adams County, Illinois published by Murray, Williamson & Phelps in 1879. View the complete description here: The History of Adams County, Illinois
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