Julius Sterling Morton

(1832-1902) lived in Nebraska City, Otoe County. Politician, promoter of Arbor Day begun in 1872, was U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, became an effective regional leader in the Democratic Party, encouraged Nebraskans to plant trees and founded Arbor Day, authored multi-volume history of Nebraska. Consult American National Biography, Vol 15 (1999) 951-953.

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