Seeking descendants of Jonathan Dorr Norton. Reunion this 4th of July weekend. He was born at Harpersfield, Ashtabula county, Ohio, Oct. 22, 1841, a son of Washington Adams and Caroline (Harper) Norton. A 1912 bio taken from Pages 184-186 from volume III, part 1 of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... states the following about the children of Jonathan Dorr Norton. On Dec. 24, 1863, Colonel Norton was united in marriage to Miss Ada Sheffield, of Napoleon, Ohio. Seven children have been born of their union, five of whom are living. Dr. William Sheffield is a physician at Muscatine, Iowa; Marie Norton is the wife of Dr. H. S. Judd, of Tacoma, Wash.; David Watterson Norton is cashier of the First National Bank of Guymon, Okla.; Jonathan Dorr Norton, Jr., resides at Kansas City, Mo., and Ralph H. Norton is a deputy in his father's office. All five of these children are married. The two deceased children were Ada May, first born, who died when two years of age, and John Harper, fourth born, who died at the age of twenty-nine, leaving a widow and one child. Colonel Norton and wife have nine grandchildren. Both are members of the New Jerusalem or Swedenborgian Church of Topeka.