William Thomas Green Morton (1819 - 1868)

Born 9 Aug 1819 in Charlton, Worcester, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Whitman) Morton — married May 1844 in Farmington, Hartford County, Connecticut

Died 15 Jul 1868 at age 48 in Manhattan, New York City, New York

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Biography

William Thomas Green Morton was an American dentist who first publicly demonstrated the use of inhaled ether as a surgical anesthetic in 1846. The promotion of his questionable claim to have been the discoverer of anesthesia became an obsession for the rest of his life. (See link below to his WikiPedia page).

William was born in 1819 in Charlton, Massachusetts to a farmer, James Morton and his wife Rebecca Needham. He studied both dentistry and medicine, but never graduated from either program. In 1844, he married Elizabeth Whitman, niece of former Congressman Lemuel Whitman. They had five children together.

Morton died in 1848 from a major stroke. He was buried in the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ^[1]

Birth

Name: William Thomas Green Morton

Event Type: Birth

Birth Date: 9 Aug 1819

Birth Place: Charlton, Massachusetts.

Father Name: James Morton

Mother Name: Rebeckah^[2]

Marriage

Name: William T G Morton

Marriage Date: May 1844

Marriage Place: Farmington, Connecticut, USA

Residence Place: Boston

Spouse: Elizabeth Whitman

Spouse Residence Place: Farmington^[3]

Residence

1850 U.S. Census

Name: William T G Norton (misspelled as Norton)

Age: 31

Birth Year: abt 1819

Birthplace: Massachusetts

Home in 1850: Needham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA

Household Members

Name Age

William T G Norton: 31

Elisabeth W Norton: 24

William J Norton: 5

Meriam Norton: 3

Edward W Norton: 2

Elisabeth W Norton: 0^[4]

1860 U.S. Census

Name: William T Morton

Age: 40

Birth Year: abt 1820

Birth Place: Massachusetts

Home in 1860: Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut

Post Office: Unionville

Household Members

Name Age

William T Morton: 40

Elizabeth D Morton: 33

William J Morton: 15

Marion A Morton: 13

Edward W Morton: 11

Bessie Morton: 10

Nathaniel B Morton: 2^[5]

1865 State Census

Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts (living with wife and all five children) ^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #1759 has biography
2. ↑ Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).
3. ↑ Ancestry.com. Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original Data: White, Lorraine Cook, ed. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Vol. 1-55. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002.
4. ↑ Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 1009 rolls); Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C. Year: 1850; Census Place: Needham, Norfolk, Massachusetts; Roll: M432_330; Page: 295B; Image: 593
5. ↑ 1860 U.S. census, population schedule. NARA microfilm publication M653, 1,438 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d. Year: 1860; Census Place: Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut; Roll: M653_77; Page: 596; Family History Library Film: 803077
6. ↑ Massachusetts. 1855–1865 Massachusetts State Census [microform]. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.

• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 31 October 2018), memorial page for William Thomas Green Morton (9 Aug 1819–15 Jul 1868), Find A Grave: Memorial #1759, citing Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave .

• Probate Index, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, Vol 2, L - Z, 1910. Boston, MA, USA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1910. Cat. #F/72/N8/M45/v.1.

• Archives Center, National Museum of American History: THE MORTON FAMILY COLLECTION 1849-1911 #118 ("The material in the collection was gathered by Morton's son, W. J. Morton, in defense of his father's character and work, and presented to the Smithsonian Institution by him on April 2, 1918. It includes correspondence, reprints of articles from medical and surgical journals, other publications, reports of congressional committees, materials relating to securing a U.S. patent, and testimonials on behalf of Morton's claim. ") http://amhistory.si.edu/archives/d8118.htm

• Godfrey Memorial Library. American Genealogical-Biographical Index. Middletown, CT, USA: Godfrey Memorial Library. Volume 121, Page 394

• New England Historic Genealogical Society. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston: The New England Historic Genealogical Society. Volume Number: 136. Page Number: 324

• Wikipedia: William T. G. Morton
• Wikidata: Item Q319689, en:Wikipedia