Morton family

Cabinet card portraits taken by A.M. Slusher of Bluefield, West Virginia. Portrait subjects include Vernie, Arthur Price, B., and J.E. Morton, all children. Also included is a portrait of Nancy Beaver.

Diaries, account books, and a surveyor's handbook belonging to John Morton, a farmer of Hollidays Cove, Brooke County, West Virginia. The surveyor's book includes lessons on logarithm, geometry, plane trigonometry, and surveying. The diaries and account books record Morton's life and significant events of the period. There is also an undated land deed, a property list of Morton's father, John Morton, and some genealogical information.