Biography

10/12/1810 - 02/09/1878

MORTON, Sketchley, II, a Representative from Delaware County; born, October 12, 1810 in Delaware County, Pa.; farmer; merchant; elected as a Whig to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1847 term, reelected to the House for the 1848 term; elected, associate judge, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Delaware County (1851-1854); president, Delaware County Mutual Insurance Company (1852-1878); postmaster, United States Postal Service, Morton, Pa. (1867-1869); died, February 9, 1878 in Morton, Delaware County, Pennsylvania; interred, Media Cemetery, Media, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.