J. Sterling Morton and his bride, Caroline, set out for the new territory of Nebraska on Oct. 30, 1854, the very day they were married. The 22-year-old Morton had barely settled in Bellevue before ...

This oil painting hangs on the first landing of the main staircase at Arbor Lodge in Nebraska City. J. Sterling Morton commissioned the work, which depicts Natives celebrating the signing of the ...

People from all over admired J. Sterling Morton's apple trees near the Arbor Lodge in Nebraska City in 1989. As people celebrated Arbor Day, they were treated to the site of his big old barns that ...

Originally published April 22, 2007.By Robert Nelson / World-Herald columnist Jan 8, 2016 Updated Oct 16, 2019 0 ...

MONROE — Friday, April 25 is Arbor Day. Quite simply, Arbor Day is a holiday to celebrate trees. And, it all began in 1872 with J. Sterling Morton, a man who once lived in Monroe. Morton also ...

Grover Cleveland made an appeal for appreciation of character by the American people in an address to-day at the unveiling of a statue to J. Sterling Morton, founder of Arbor Day, who was ...

CHICAGO, April 27.-J. Sterling Morton, ex-Secretary of Agriculture, died at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon at Lake Forrest, at the home of his son, Mark Morton, The interment will be at Nebraska City.

A statue of J. Sterling Morton stands in Arbor Day Park in Nebraska City, Nebraska. Another statue of Morton may be on its way from Washington, D.C., next spring.

NEBRASKA CITY, Neb. — The statue of J. Sterling Morton that stood in the U.S. Capitol for nearly a century has found a new home in Nebraska City. The 9-foot, 5,500-pound bronze statue was in the ...