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Benjamin A. Morton
BENJAMIN ALEXANDER “BEN” MORTON (1878-1955) was an American writer. He was born on January 12, 1878 in Mount Pleasant, Mississippi, the eldest of eight children of John Walker Morton and Jennie Han...vizualizați mai multeBENJAMIN ALEXANDER “BEN” MORTON (1878-1955) was an American writer. He was born on January 12, 1878 in Mount Pleasant, Mississippi, the eldest of eight children of John Walker Morton and Jennie Hanna Norris Morton. He met and married artist Christina May Boles in New York in 1906. He died there on September 26, 1955, aged 77, and was buried in his wife’s birthplace of Dardanelle, Arkansas.
CHRISTINA MORTON (1878-1963) was an American artist. She was born Christina May Boles on December 8, 1878 in Dardanelle, Arkansas, the eldest of eight children of Thomas Boles and Catherine K. May. A founder of Chi Omega Fraternity, Christina was known as Ina May Boles to Chi Omegas. She moved to New York City to study at the Art Students League and at the National Academy of Design. She traveled to Europe to study, and upon moving back to the United States became an active member of the Federation of American Artists and the Allied Artist’s Association. By 1920 she was exhibiting at the National Academy. She married author Benjamin A. Morton in 1906 and illustrated his book The Veiled Empress (1923). She died on October 14, 1963 in Dardanelle, Arkansas, aged 84.vizualizați mai puține