When Leonard Murray Morton was born on 15 October 1858, in LeRoy, Coffey, Kansas, United States, his father, Joseph Addison Morton, was 24 and his mother, Clementine Ireland, was 20. He married Susan Mary Darr in June 1886, in Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Nyssa, Malheur, Oregon, United States in 1900 and Malheur, Oregon, United States in 1920. He died on 31 May 1923, in Ontario, Malheur, Oregon, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Ontario, Malheur, Oregon, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1862: Baker, Oregon, United States
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English and Scottish: habitational name from any of the many places called Mor(e)ton, named with Old English mōr ‘moor’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. There has probably been some confusion with Morten , and perhaps also with Murton . This English name has also been established in Ireland since the 13th century.
American shortened and altered form of Swedish Mårtensson or Mortensson (see Martenson and Mortenson ), which could also be substituted for the Finnish cognate Marttinen.
French: shortened form of Moreton 3.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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