Baptist minister. Pastor in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Jersey and Indiana; Collecting agent, American Baptist Home Mission Society, 1846-1861.

Charles Morton, son of Thomas and Polly Morton, was born June 10, 1798 in the town of Augusta. His father writes: "In the fall of the year 1799 we moved from Augusta across the Town and County line into the Town of Madison - the move was not more than half a mile." His wife, Polly, had passed away April 13, 1809. In Sept. 1811 Thomas Morton moved with his children to Pomfret, County of Chautauque. On September 5, 1813 Thomas married Hannah Bond at Newton, Mass. and brought her to his home in Pomfret, Oct. 23, 1813. Polly Morton was buried at Madison, N.Y.

MARRIED - Charles Morton was married on March 15th 1822 to Susannah Neely, daughter of Henry Neely. She was born in Fairfield, Herkimer Co. N.Y. on May 23, 1799. They had eight children but only three were still alive in 1646.

CONVERTED - In a letter written at Adams N.Y. on Oct. 20, 1821 Charles Morton tells his father, Thomas, of his conversion. Baptized January 19, 1823

AT SEMINARY - Charles writes to his wife Susan in Fredonia from the Baptist Literary and Theological Seminary at Hamilton, N.Y. on March 23, 1825. He spent the first three months of 1827 preaching at the Manlius and Pompey churches. He completed his work at Hamilton June 6, 1827.

MINISTRY - Charles Morton served the Manlius churchefor several years and in May 1828 he wrote that he was going to work part-time for the Onondaga County Sunday School Association. In 1833-34 he held protracted meetings in Manlius with great success.

In 1836 he was preaching at the Baptist Church in Erie, PA.

In 1837-39 he was in Ashtabula, Ohio. Still there in 1840.

In 1866, June 14th in Huntington, Ind. Charles Morton married his daughter Matilda Neeley Morton to Charles M. Taylor of Chicago, Ill. - real estate broker with office at 41 Clark St., Room 2. The Taylors eventually moved to Colorado where C. M. Taylor operated a wholesale grocery business.

DEATH - Charles Morton died March 3rd, Tuesday, (no year indicated) at Deer Valley, Park County, Colorado at the home of his son-in-law. He had been a pastor in the BaPtist church for more than 40 years. He had given up preaching two years before his death. He left a wife and three children.

His wife, Susan Morton, died April 30, 1880 at the age of 83 years. She was buried in Riverside Cemetery (probably on the outskirts of Denver).