TIMOTHY MORTON, farmer; P.O. Conover; was born in Howell Township, Monmouth Co., N. J., Feb. 22, 1799, and is a son of John and Mary (Longstreet) Morton, who were both natives of New Jersey; they had eleven children, of whom Timothy is the only one now living; John Morton was one of the patriots of the War of Independence, where he served a period of six months; he and his wife both died at advanced ages. Our subject was left very early in life to battle for himself, and spent his boyhood days farming with various people until 16 years of age; then he commenced work in a manufactory of all kinds of cloth, which he followed until 1831; at this time, he emigrated to Ohio and bought his present farm of 60 acres, in Sec. 11, Brown Township, Miami Co.; this he has changed from its primeval state to a good degree of cultivation. Mr. Morton has held the office of Supervisor in Brown Township eight years, and feels interested in forwarding all public improvements. In New Jersey, in 1820, he married Mary Gurney, who was a native of that State, and died in Brown Township, Miami Co., in 1858; by this union there were six children, of whom five are now living. In December, 1859, Timothy Morton married for his second companion Mary J. Ayers, of New Jersey, who was born in Burlington Co., May 9, 1808, and is a daughter of Zadock and Mary (Smith) Green; she has buried two husbands and is now living with the third one.