Jonathan Dorr NORTON

Birth: 22 Oct 1841, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio
Death: 13 Jan 1922, Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas
Burial: Topeka Cemetery, Shawnee, Kansas

Father: Washington Adams NORTON
Mother: Caroline HARPER

Family 1: Ada SHEFFIELD

Marriage: 24 Dec 1863, Ohio

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 _Washington Adams NORTON _|
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|--Jonathan Dorr NORTON 
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|                                                                      _John HARPER ________
|                                             _Alexander HARPER ______|_Abigail MONTGOMERY _
|                           _John A. HARPER _|
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|                          |                 |_Elizabeth BARTHOLOMEW _|_Dorothy ENDT _______
|_Caroline HARPER _________|
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                           |                  _John MINOR ____________|_Sarah DUTTON _______
                           |_Lorain MINOR ___|
                                             |                         _John RICE __________
                                             |_Loraine RICE __________|_____________________

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Household Record 1880 United States Census -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Household: Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Moth er's Birthplace J. D. NORTON Self M Male W 39 OH Banker NY OH Ada NORTON Wife M Female W 39 OH Keeping House OH OH Wm. S. NORTON Son S Male W 13 OH Attends School OH OH Mary NORTON Dau S Female W 9 OH Attends School OH OH John H. NORTON Son S Male W 7 OH Attends School OH OH David W. NORTON Son S Male W 4 OH OH OH J. Dorr NORTON Son S Male W 1 OH OH OH Sophia BOCHLING Other S Female W 29 GER House Keeper GER GER -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Source Information: Census Place Napoleon, Henry, Ohio Family History Library Film 1255032 NA Film Number T9-1032 Page Number 91C ____________________________________________ 1920 uS Census Name: Jonathan D Norton Age: 78 years Estimated birth year: 1844 Birthplace: Ohio Race: Whit e Home in 1920: Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas Home owned: Roll: T625_551 Page: 16A ED: 173 Image : 0693 Norton, Ada age 78 born Ohio _____________________________________ Transcribed from volume III, part 1 of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing event s, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a su pplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. C hicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackm ar. Transcribed December 2002 by Carolyn Ward. This volume is identified at the Kansas Stat e Historical Society as microfilm LM195. It is a two-part volume 3. Jonathan Dorr Norton.ŮvDuring twenty-five years' of residence in Topeka Col. Jonathan Dorr Nor ton, who at the present time (1911) is serving his first term as sheriff of Shawnee county, h as become well known to the people of that city, where his life record is an honored one an d where his usefulness as a citizen, his efficiency in the discharge of duty, his enterprisin g spirit, and force of high character have brought him to the fore among Topeka's most promin ent and influential men of affairs. Kansas is Colonel Norton's state by adoption. He was born at Harpersfield, Ashtabula county , Ohio, Oct. 22, 1841, a son of Washington Adams and Caroline (Harper) Norton. The father, wh o at different periods of his business career was a farmer, a foundryman, and a merchant, wa s born in the State of New York Feb. 6, 1808, and the mother was born in Ashtabula county, Oh io, May 25, 1820. Colonel Norton is of Colonial descent on both the paternal and maternal sid es, and through his mother is the scion of a Revolutionary ancestor, her father, John Harper , having been the son of Col. Alexander Harper, who served with the rank of colonel in the Co ntinental army of the American Revolution. The Nortons are an ancient family, originally ou t of England, who trace their English history to Count De Norville, the High Sheriff of Willi am the Conqueror, as their common ancestor. The family was planted in this country by three b rothers, who emigrated from England prior to the Revolution, one of them settling at Martha' s Vineyard, Mass., another near Boston, Mass., and the third in Connecticut. Washington Adam s Norton was a son of Zadok and Katharine (Carr) Norton, natives of Connecticut, the latter o f whom lived to be ninety-nine years of age. The Harper family, of Presbyterian faith, was Sc otch-Irish, a strain of blood well known for its physical vigor, mental alertness, and robus t moral sentiments, and emigrated to America from the North of Ireland. Washington Adams Nort on and Caroline Harper were married in Ashtabula county, Ohio, in 1839, and became the parent s of five children, of whom Colonel Norton is the eldest. The other children were: Elijah Har per, who served as a non-commissioned officer in Company E, Eighty-fourth Ohio infantry durin g the Civil war, and after the war became a banker at Toledo, Ohio, where he died in 1886; Jo hn Adams, who gave loyal and faithful service in behalf the Union during the great national c onflict as a private in Company C, One-Hundred and Fiftieth Ohio infantry, and was sent to Lo ndon after the close of the war as the European representative of the Gardner Gun Company, o f Cleveland, Ohio, and died in London after having induced the English government to adopt th e use of the Gardner machine gun in the British army and navy; David Z., of Cleveland, Ohio , who is a wealthy dealer in Lake Superior iron ore; and Mrs. Caroline Watterson, of New Yor k City. The parents removed from Ashtabula county to Cleveland, Ohio, in the year 1845, and s pent the remainder of their lives in that city. The father died there Dec. 22, 1855, his wif e surviving him until 1890. Though Jonathan D. Norton was old enough to serve in the Civil wa r, as did two of his brothers, he was barred from active service on account of having lost th e sight of one eye when a mere lad. But for this physical defect he, too, would have served i n the war, for he volunteered, but was rejected. He was fond of military life, however, and t hough deprived of serving his country in actual war he was for many years identified with th e Ohio National Guard, first captain of Company F, of the Sixteenth regiment, later as lieute nant-colonel of that regiment for three years, and then as colonel, commanding the same regim ent seven years. Colonel Norton was educated at Cleveland, Ohio. The earlier part of his business career was s pent in his native State of Ohio, where for eight years he was chief clerk and cashier for th e Cleveland & Toledo Railroad Company. There he also served as a member of the Ohio state sen ate two years, his reputation in that body having been that of a man of high attainments an d a worthy representative of a great state, giving vigorous and devoted attention to the inte rests of his constituency. In September, 1887, he came to Topeka, Kan., where he served in th e treasury department of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company for five years, an d later was associated with the fuel department nine years. His public life in that city bega n as a member of the Topeka board of education, in which capacity he served six years. He i s now completing his first term as sheriff of Shawnee county, the duties of which office he h as discharged fearlessly, in a manner to beget and retain for himself the confidence and goo d will of the general public and to serve the best interests of the citizens of Shawnee count y. It is the belief of his many friends throughout Shawnee county that in 1912 he will agai n be the choice of his party for the office of sheriff and that he will be rečelected by an in creased majority. On Dec. 24, 1863, Colonel Norton was united in marriage to Miss Ada Sheffield, of Napoleon, O hio. Seven children have been born of their union, five of whom are living. Dr. William Sheff ield is a physician at Muscatine, Iowa; Marie is the wife of Dr. H. S. Judd, of Tacoma, Wash. ; David Watterson is cashier of the First National Bank of Guymon, Okla.; Jonathan Dorr, Jr. , resides at Kansas City, Mo., and Ralph H. is a deputy in his father's office. All five of t hese children are married. The two deceased children were Ada May, first born, who died whe n two years of age, and John Harper, fourth born, who died at the age of twenty-nine, leavin g a widow and one child. Colonel Norton and wife have nine grandchildren. Both are members o f the New Jerusalem or Swedenborgian Church of Topeka. Colonel Norton has led a busy and useful life, which has been marked by great energy, industr y, and correct habits. He is public-spirited, progressive in his views, and keenly intereste d in all that pertains to the welfare of his city. He believes in education, temperance, an d continual advancement along all lines of substantial progress, and is himself temperate i n all things. In the matter of intoxicants he is a tee-totaler, and does not use tobacco in a ny form. The abstemious life he has led is no doubt responsible to some extent for his remark ably welll-preserved physique, for though he is now three-score and ten and has reached an ag e at which many men are either completely worn out or ready to retire, he yet possesses the v igor and energy of a many of fifty, and would readily pass for a man fifteen years his junior . Colonel Norton is very prominently affiliated with the Masonic order, in which he has attaine d the Thirty-third Scottish Rite degree; is a life member of the Ohio Consistory, Scottish Ri te Masons, of Cincinnati, Ohio; is a past eminent commander of the Knights Templars; a membe r of the Ancient Arabic Order, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; a member of the Royal Order of Sc otland, and has been treasurer of the council of administration of the Scottish Rite bodies o f Topeka for the past fifteen years. He is also a member of the Royal Arcanum and of the Knig hts and Ladies of Security. By virtue of lineal descent he is a member of the Sons of the Ame rican Revolution and has served as treasurer of the Kansas branch of that order for ten years . He is an ex-director of the Central National Bank, of Topeka, and is a life member of the K ansas State Historical Society. Pages 184-186 from volume III, part 1 of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing eve nts, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / wit h a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub . Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W . Blackmar. Transcribed December 2002 by Carolyn Ward. This volume is identified at the Kansa s State Historical Society as microfilm LM195. It is a two-part volume 3.


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