OBIT:  MORTON, Randall; 1907; Ebensburg, Cambria Cnty., PA

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Cambria Freeman
Ebensburg, Pa.
Friday, 20 Sep 1907
Volume 41, Number 38


Aged Educator Dead

Prof. Randall Morton died at the residence of a 
granddaughter in Pittsburg on Tuesday evening, aged ninety 
years.

Prof. Morton was born in Whateley, Mass., of Revolutionary 
stock. He received his education it the public schools and 
at Wilbraham Academy at Massachusetts, from which he 
graduated at the age of twenty-three.  Then he journeyed 
west and located at Ebensburg, where he obtained the 
important position of teacher of the first public school in 
town.

A few years later he went to Somerset and taught in the 
Somerset Academy until 1848.

Later he taught in Lawrenceville, Allegheny County.  He was 
connected with the schools of that county for about ten 
years and then lived a retired life.

His widow, still living, is eighty-five years old.   A 
multitude of descendants survive him.