A grandfather came to (Rock County area).

The evidence

• “The Morton family, whose various members have done their full share in the work of developing the material interests of the community in which they have lived since the coming of the grandfather in 1847, is one of the most respected and highly esteemed in their section of the county, and this applies to none more truly than to him whose name heads this brief sketch.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34d-biographical-4.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 549 / book p. 1033

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

  Grade A: Found on a page of one of our sources