Background
Daniel Oliver Morton was born November 8, 1815 at Shoreham, Vermont, son of Review Daniel Oliver Morton (1788-1852) and Lucretia Parsons Morton (1789-1862).
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Daniel Oliver Morton was born November 8, 1815 at Shoreham, Vermont, son of Review Daniel Oliver Morton (1788-1852) and Lucretia Parsons Morton (1789-1862).
Daniel Oliver Morton was born November 8, 1815 at Shoreham, Vermont, son of Review Daniel Oliver Morton (1788-1852) and Lucretia Parsons Morton (1789-1862). He was the oldest of six children of the couple, including his brother Levi P. Morton.
He graduated with honors from in the class of 1833.
He removed to Cleveland, Ohio and studied law in the offices of Hiram V. Willson & Henry B. Payne.
After admission to the bar, Morton moved to Toledo, Ohio where he practiced. He was elected as a Democrat as Mayor of Toledo in 1849, and served until 1850. He was appointed United States Attorney for the District of Ohio in 1854 by Franklin Pierce.
In 1855, the district was divided into Northern and Southern Districts by 10 Statistics
604, and Morton became Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, serving until 1857. Morton was married to Elizabeth A. Tyler (1817-1873) on December 31, 1839 at Ohio City, Ohio.
They had seven children at Toledo, four of whom died in childhood. He died December 5, 1859 at Toledo, and was buried there.