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Morton, Julius Sterling

journalist, legislator, was born April 22, 1832, in Jefferson county, N. Y. He located in Nebraska in 1854, in Bellevue, and in the following year issued the first number of the Nebraska City News. He was elected to the territorial legislature the same year and reelected in 1857. He is the author of the arbor day legislation, which prothat one day in each year, April 22, be made a public holiday and be devoted to tree planting, and which has been adopted in forty-two states. He was appointed secretary of agriculture by President Cleveland, and entered upon his duties March ties March 7, 1893.