Part 17

I. HARVEY ADDISON, M. D., son of Dr. Harvey Horton and Mary Bennet (_Barnabas_, _Silas_, _Barnabas_, _Barnabas_, _Caleb I._), born at Greenville, Orange Co., N. Y., 12 March, 1832; married in Middletown, N. Y., in March, 1859, to FANNY CAROLINE BEEBE, daughter of Elder Gilbert Beebe, the distinguished and able editor of the "_Signs of the Times_," and sister of the Hon. George M. Beebe, member of Congress from Orange Co., N. Y., and born in Middletown, N. Y., exact date not given. Dr. Horton graduated in Albany Medical College, Class of 1856. He established an office and commenced the practice of medicine at Middletown, N. Y., and was very successful. After his marriage he removed to Kansas, and settled at Atchison. On his way returning home from a journey East he was instantly killed, 3 Sept., 1861, by the fall of a bridge with a train of cars upon it, one of which he was in, which spanned the Little Platte River, nine miles east of St. Joseph, Missouri. The bridge had been partly burned by the rebels, but left standing ready to fall when the cars came upon it, for the purpose of killing Union soldiers. Thirteen persons were killed, and over eighty badly injured by this barbarous outrage. The Doctor's corpse was taken to Middletown, and buried in the Hill Cemetery by the side of his father, and mother, and sisters.

They had one child, Mary Evelyn, born 3 Aug., 1861. After the death of her husband, the Doctor's wife returned to Orange Co., where the little child died, 21 Oct., 1861, and was buried by the side of its dead father.

Dr. Horton was a man of superior mental capacity, possessed high literary talent, was deeply learned in his profession, and doubtless, had he lived, would have attained to great eminence in the science of medicine.

III. HON. ALBERT HOWELL, son of Dr. Harvey A. Horton and Mary Bennet, born near Brookfield, in the town of Minnisink, Orange Co., N. Y., 13 March, 1837; married in Middletown, N. Y., by the Rev. Mr. Harris, 26 May, 1864, to ANNA AMELIA ROBERTSON, daughter of William Wells Robertson and Adaline Sayer, and born in Centerville, Minnisink Township, 2 July, 1840.

Children:

1. Carrie Robertson, born in Middletown, N. Y., 22 April, 1865.

2. Mary Bennet, born in Atchison, Kansas, 12 July, 1868.

3. Rosa Sayer, born in Atchison, Kansas, 2 June, 1871.

4. Albert Howell, born in Atchison, Kansas, 1 April, 1874.

Albert H. Horton attended the public school at West Town, N. Y., until 13 years of age, and then attended the "_Farmer's Hall Academy_," at Goshen, Orange Co., New York, and was there prepared for college. He entered the "University of Michigan," as a freshman, and remained there two years, but was compelled to leave college on account of inability to study, owing to some trouble with his eyes. In 1857, he entered the law office of Hon. Joseph W. Gott, at Goshen, New York, as a law student, and remained there until December 18th, 1858, when he was admitted as a counsellor and attorney at-law, at a general term of the N. Y. Supreme Court, held in Brooklyn, New York. In 1859, he went West, with his brother, and the Hon. George M. Beebe, now member of Congress from New York State, to engage in the practice of the law. He formed a partnership in the law business with Mr. Beebe, under the firm name of Beebe & Horton, at Macon, Moscow, Mo., in 1859, but both parties soon became tired of Missouri, and removed to Kansas. Mr. Beebe soon became Secretary of the Territory of Kansas, and their acting Governor. Mr. Horton selected Atchison, Atchison Co., Kansas, as his adopted home, and has resided there ever since. In 1860, he was appointed City Attorney of Atchison, by the Mayor, the Hon. Geo. H. Fairchild. In the Spring of 1861, he was elected City Attorney of the same city, on the Union ticket. In September of 1864, he was appointed District Judge of the 2d Judicial District, of Kansas, by the Governor, Hon. Chas. H. Robinson. He was elected and re-elected to the same office, and then resigned in 1865, to continue the practice of his profession. On his entering practice, he was again elected City Attorney of Atchison, and held the position one year. In 1868, he was elected as one of the State Electors on the Republican State ticket in Kansas, and was selected the messenger to take the vote of Kansas to Washington, to be deposited with the Vice-President for Grant and Colfax. From 1861 to 1864, in addition to attending to the duties of Judge of the District Court, he edited, with Hon. John J. Ingalls, the weekly "_Champion_,"--a newspaper printed and published at Atchison. Mr. Ingalls is now the U. S. Senator from Kansas. In May, 1869, Mr. Horton was appointed, by President Grant, U. S. District Attorney of Kansas, and he held this office till July 18th, 1873, and then resigned the position. Upon the resignation of Judge Delabay, U. S. Judge of Kansas, in 1874, Mr. Horton's name was mentioned very prominently in connection with the vacant Judgeship, and at a State Bar meeting, called to recommend names for the position, Mr. Horton was presented by the majority of the lawyers present for the place. Owing to some difference of opinion among the Kansas delegation in Congress, however, Hon. C. G. Foster, of Atchison, was appointed in his stead. Mr. Horton still continues the practice of his profession at Atchison, and is the local attorney of the Chicago and Rock Island R. R. Co., and the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe R. R. Co., at that place. In March, 1873, Horton was associated with the Hon. Caleb Cushing, of Massachusetts, in the defence of Senator S. C. Pomeroy, before the U. S. Senate Investigating Committee, charged to inquire into certain pretended charges of bribery, connected with the Senatorial election in Kansas, in January, 1873. After a lengthy examination, Senator Pomeroy was acquitted by a majority of the Senatorial Committee. Afterwards the charges against Mr. Pomeroy were dismissed in Kansas, and the case against him never came to trial. In the Fall of 1873, Horton was elected by upwards of 500 majority to the Legislature of Kansas, and took a prominent part in the impeachment of Hon. Josiah E. Hayes, State Treasurer of Kansas. Mr. Horton was chairman of the committee which reported and carried the impeachment through the House, in February, 1874, and was then appointed Chairman of the Board of Managers to prosecute the impeached Treasurer before the State Senate. The State Treasurer then resigned, and the impeachment ended. In politics Mr. Horton is a Republican, but belongs to the Conservative side of the party.

The celebrated York-Pomeroy Bribery Case was brought to a final termination on the eleventh of March, 1875, and the $7,000 historic package was turned over to Mr. Pomeroy's counsel, the Hon. A. H. Horton. Great credit is due Judge Horton for his untiring efforts in having such an unjust and malicious prosecution brought to a close.

IV. ANNA ELIZA, daughter of Parmenas H. Horton and Milicent Howell (_Barnabas_, _Silas_, _Barnabas_, _Barnabas_, _Caleb I._), born in Middletown, N. Y., 15 Jan., 1830; married in Middletown, 23 March, 1859, by the Rev. Daniel F. Wood, to John Wheeler Gardner, son of John Gardner and Elizabeth Wheeler, and born in Warwick, N. Y., 7 Feb., 1827.

Children, born in Middletown:

1. Charles Horton Gardner, born 11 Feb., 1860.

2. John Wheeler Gardner, Jr., born 27 Jan., 1866.

They reside in Middletown, N. Y., and rank among the first families of that village. Mrs. Gardner says: "Milicent Howell was the name of both my paternal and maternal grandmothers, and yet they were not at all related as we know of; we have often spoken of it as quite a singular coincidence."

Mrs. Gardner was the first to propose a GENERAL GATHERING and SOCIAL UNION and RE-UNION of the Horton family of our country, which is to take place in Philadelphia in July, 1876.

VII. ALSON WARREN, son of Benjamin Horton and Almira Osborn (_Barnabas_, _Barnabas_, _Barnabas_, _Barnabas_, _Caleb I._), born in Onondaga, N. Y., 28 May, 1829; married in DeWitt, N. Y., 10 Feb., 1852, by Elder R. R. Raymond, to ELECTA LOUISA AINSLEE, daughter of William Ainslee and Nancy Pinney. He is now living in DeWitt, Onondaga Co., N. Y.; is a farmer.

Children, probably all born in DeWitt:

1. Charles Albert, born 2 Nov., 1853.

2. Philip Brewster, born 6 Jan., 1857.

3. William Benjamin, born 5 Oct., 1859.

4. Henry Broadhead, born 28 Nov., 1861.

5. Gardner Stanton, born 28 Jan., 1867.

6. Helen Elizabeth, born 15 July, 1871.

I. THOMAS WHITE, son of Henry Horton and Elizabeth White (_Nathan_, _Richard_, _Caleb_, _Barnabas_, _Caleb I._), born at Broadtop, Pa., 12 June, 1813; married 1. BARBARA BARNETTE; she died, and he married 2. the widow, ELIZABETH WOOD. Reside at Wells' Tannery, Fulton Co., Pa. He died in 1875.

II. NATHAN WHITE, son of Henry Horton and Elizabeth White, born at Broadtop, Pa., 3 May, 1815; married 1. about 1835, to ROSANNA MILLER; she died about 1860, and he married 2. the widow SUSANNA READY. They reside at Spearsville, Fulton Co., Pa.

Children, by 1st wife:

1. Samuel Miller, born 5 May, 1836; married Sarah Dunnica.

2. Joseph Miller, born 22 April, 1840; married Bell M. Lee.

3. Maria, born in 1842; married Dr. Wishart, of Fulton, Pa.

4. Catherine, born in 1844; married Harry Markley, of Fulton Co., Pa.

5. Edwin A., born at Johnstown, Pa., 1846; unmarried; resides at Bedford Springs.

6. Laura, born at Johnstown, Pa., 1849; married William Spear Dickson, and reside in Fulton Co., Pa.

III. HON. WILLIAM, son of Henry Horton and Elizabeth White, born at Broadtop, Pa., 4 July, 1817; married at Broadtop, 15 March, 1837, by Rev. Zophar D. Pasco, to ANNA CERATHERS, daughter of Andrew Cerathers and Ellen Cerathers.

Children, born at Wells' Tannery, Fulton Co., Pa.:

1. Milton Murat, born 6 Nov., 1838.

2. Jonathan, born 5 April, 1840; died in the army in 1864.

3. Zophar Pasco, born 12 April, 1842.

4. Reuben, born 2 Sept., 1843; died in the army in 1864.

5. Nancy, born 22 March, 1845.

6. Calvin, born 25 July, 1846; died young.

7. Alfred, born 16 March, 1848.

8. Ruth, born 1 Feb., 1850.

9. Mary, born 12 Aug., 1851.

10. Elizabeth, born 18 May, 1855.

11. James B., born 4 Feb., 1857.

The Hon. William Horton resides at Wells' Tannery, Pa. He is a farmer, intelligent and self educated, and a few years ago was a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature. He is one of the leading men of the county, and he has kindly given his assistance in looking up the Hortons of West Chester, Pa. He remarks in one of his letters,

"The Patriarchs, Nathan and Samuel Horton, who settled in Bedford Co., Pa., seemed to live in a quiet, Quaker-like way, as they left no records save a few deeds and other legal papers, which we found on the county records. They were both practical blacksmiths, and that trade has been adopted by a great many of both families, and many of their descendants are at this time the best mechanics of the country. I have myself a set of blacksmith tools, brought from Philadelphia by my grandfather when he moved out, and the bellows bears the brand 'D. C. Dawson, Philadelphia, 1774,' and I do not keep them as an heirloom, for they are in active use almost every day."

I. JAMES C., son of Gen. William Horton and Milley Dula (_Nathan_, _Nathan_, _Caleb_, _Barnabas_, _Caleb I._), born on New River, Ashe Co., N. C., 9 March, 1817; married SARAH DICKSON, daughter of Col. Dickson, of Caldwell Co., N. C. He is a first class farmer, resides on the Yadkin River one mile below Elkville. He was a volunteer in the Cherokee war, and had command of a company at the age of 19. He was county surveyor for many years.

Children, all born near Elkville:

1. William, died young.

2 and 3, Amelia and Margaret, twins.

2. Amelia, married Arthur Duvall Cowles, son of Calvin J. Cowles and Martha Duvall. He is a merchant at Gap Creek, Ashe Co., N. C. They have James, Calvin and Martha Horton.

3. Margaret is not married.

4. Dickson, a merchant, in company with his brother-in-law A. D. Cowles.

II. WILLIAM LEANDER, son of Gen. William Horton and Milley Dula, married FRANCES CORPENING. They have:

1. Eliza, married John Wagoner, resides in Oregon.

2. Millard, also in Oregon.

3. William.

4. Corpening.

5. Rufus.

William Leander was also a volunteer in the Cherokee war at the age of 16, and was a Lieut. in his brother's company.

III. ELIZA, daughter of Gen. William Horton and Milley Dula, married JACKSON CORPENING of Burke Co., N. C. He is dead. He was a prominent man and much respected--left several children. One of his daughters married Col. Burgers S. Gaithers, a lawyer and politician, and one of the foremost men in the State.

IV. THEODOCIA ELVIRA, daughter of Gen. William Horton and Milley Dula, born at Yadkin River, in Wilkes Co., N. C., 22 Aug., 1825; married at the residence of her father, 23 Jan., 1845, by the Rev. Smith Ferguson, a Baptist minister, to GEO. HAGA HAMILTON, born at Salem, N. C., 5 Jan., 1814. He is a first class farmer; resides near Jefferson, Ashe Co., N. C.

Children, all born at Jefferson:

1. William, born 8 Dec., 1845; married 2 Dec., 1869, to Martha Virginia Perkins.

2. Mary Jane, born 29 March, 1847; married 19 March, 1866, to Dr. Levi C. Gentrey.

3. Rufus Alexander, born 8 Oct., 1850; unmarried.

V. REBECCA, daughter of Gen. William Horton and Milley Dula, married DAVID E. BOWER. They have several children--we only have names of two, as follows:

1. William Horton Bower, is a lawyer.

2. John Bower, is a clerk in a store at Elkville.

VI. NATHAN, son of Gen. William Horton and Milley Dula. He is a farmer; resides at Beaver Creek, Wilkes Co., N. C.; unmarried.

VII. PHINEAS, son of Gen. William Horton and Milley Dula. He is a farmer and merchant; resides at Elkville. He was a member of the House of Representatives of North Carolina in 1860-'63-'65 and '67, and in 1872 he was elected Senator.

IX. LAMIRA LOUISA, daughter of Gen. William Horton and Milley Dula, born at Yadkin River, N. C.; married at Elkville, Wilkes Co., N. C., 13 April, 1853, by the Rev. Smith Ferguson, to WILEY PERKINS THOMAS, son of Stephen Thomas and Rebecca Perkins, and born at Heltore, Ashe Co., N. C., 20 April, 1823. Mr. Thomas resides at Jefferson, Ashe Co. He is a well-to-do farmer, also a merchant and stock dealer.

Children, born at Jefferson:

1. Alexander Hamilton, born 20 April, 1854.

2. John D., born 2 July, 1861.

3. Elizabeth Elvira, born 26 April, 1866.

4. Lamira Caroline, born 26 March, 1871.

X. ALEXANDER HAMILTON, son of Gen. William Horton and Milley Dula, born at Yadkin River; married MARY JANE VOGLER, of Salem, N. C. They reside at Elkville. He is a merchant, in company with his brother, Phineas Horton; he is also Clerk of the Superior Court of Wilkes County.

XI. RUFUS DULA, son of Gen. William Horton and Milley Dula, born at Yadkin River. He resides at Elkville, at the old homestead of his father, and his sister Sarah lives with him. He is not married.

I. HON. WILLIAM, son of Phineas Horton and Rebecca Councill (_Nathan_, _Nathan_, _Caleb_, _Barnabas_, _Caleb I._), born on New River, 9 March, 1828; married at the residence of his wife's father, near Boone, N. C., 1860, to _Nancy Rebecca Blair_, only daughter of Henry Blair and Mary ----, and born in Caldwell Co., N. C., 26 Aug., 1835,--the Rev. Joseph Harrison, a _deaf_ preacher, officiating.

Children, all born at New River:

1. James Crittenden, born 20 Jan., 1861.

2. Jonathan Blair, born 12 Dec., 1862.

3. Julia Rebecca, born 12 Nov., 1864.

4. William Phineas, born 14 Feb., 1867.

5. Mary Emma, born 23 Feb., 1869.

6. Addie Elizabeth, born 1 May, 1871.

7. Henry Walter, born 5 July, 1873.

William Horton, at the early age of 18 years, was elected Lieutenant in the militia, and afterwards from one position to another, until he held the office of Colonel, in 1862, and during the war. He also held the office of County Surveyor, from 1849 to 1862, when he was elected to the State Legislature, and re-elected in 1864, and again in 1866. Notwithstanding his official stations, he still claims the honor of being a farmer, and makes his home with his honored father, making the old gentleman's closing years as pleasant as possible.

"Many of the Horton Family of North Carolina have lived to old age. They are generally regarded as a clever, honest, liberal, and charitable people. They possess good social qualities, and are generally very popular, and these characteristics, capability being added, account for so many of them holding public positions. Many of them are public professors of Christianity, and belong to the Baptist and Methodist denominations.

"In politics they were formerly Whigs,--were all faithful to, though not fully approving, the cause of the late Southern Confederacy. They are now all conservative, and acting with the Democratic party. Though generally intelligent, educated, and talkative, there has never yet one of them been a preacher or a lawyer, and but one a physician. They are nearly all engaged in agricultural pursuits, and generally fond of amusements, such as hunting, fishing, etc."--_Letter of Hon. William Horton, of Boone, N. C., Dec., 1874._

II. NATHAN, son of Phineas Horton and Rebecca Councill, born on New River, 22 Oct., 1829. He was a Captain in the militia before the war, and also held the office of county processioner for several years.

He volunteered in Capt. T. V. Crumpter's Co. A., 1st Reg't, N. C. Troops (cavalry), and was promoted to a Lieutenancy in Capt. Jonathan Horton's Co. (B.), 37 Reg't, N. C. Troops (infantry), in the Fall of 1863. He was in the battle of Chancellorsville, Va., and others which followed, until he reached Gettysburg, where he was severely wounded by a minnie ball, which he yet carries under his shoulder. He was captured and taken to the hospital near Chester, Pa., I think, where he remained about two months. He was then taken to Johnson's Island, Ohio, where he says, that the suffering from hunger was so great that rats were freely eaten by the prisoners. After remaining there about twenty months, he was released on parole, and got home in March, 1865. Soon after his return home he was elected County Surveyor, and he has been re-elected several times, and he still holds the office. He was married 27 May, 1875, by Rev. Dr. Wogg, to JULIETT GENTRY, daughter of W. H. Gentry, of Jefferson, N. C.

III. JONATHAN FILLMORE, son of Phineas Horton and Rebecca Councill, born 3 March, 1836. He was a Capt. in the militia before the war. When the war broke out he also volunteered, with his brother Nathan, in Capt. Crumpter's Co. He died from relapse of fever, at Moore's Hospital, Manassas Junction, Va., 2 March, 1862.

IV. JAMES HARRISON, son of Phineas Horton and Rebecca Councill, born 27 May, 1841. He was an officer in the militia, and like his brothers, volunteered in Capt. Miller's Co. I., 58th Reg't, N. C., Troops (infantry), and was chosen Lieutenant. He was slightly wounded at the battle of Chickamauga. He acted as Adjutant for Col. J. B. Palmer at the battle of Missionary Ridge. He died from brain-fever at Dalton, Ga., 22 Dec., 1863. His body was brought home and interred on the hill in front of his father's house.

JAMES THEODORE, son of David Eagles Horton and Sarah Dula (_Col. Nathan_, _Nathan_, _Caleb_, _Barnabas_, _Caleb I._), born in Caldwell Co., N. C., 16 Oct., 1829; married in Yadkin Co., N. C., 12 Oct., 1859, by John Williams, Esq., to SARAH ROSA LYNCH, daughter of Larkin Lynch and Elizabeth Hunter. Moved to Yadkin Co., N. C., in Oct., 1863, and in Dec., 1866, removed to the old homestead again in Caldwell Co. He is a well-to-do farmer, and respected by those who know him.

Children:

1. Alice Conrad, born in Yadkin Co., 22 Aug., 1860.

2. Ida Lynch, born in Yadkin Co., 2 Jan., 1863.

3. Rosa Virginia, born in Yadkin, Co., 3 Dec., 1864.

4. James Walter, born in Yadkin Co., 26 Jan., 1867.

5. Harriet Augusta, born in Caldwell Co., 30 April, 1869.

6. Lillie Gertrude, born in Caldwell Co., 2 May, 1872.

I. EDMUND BURKE, son of Edmund Bani Horton and Matilda Devoy (Jonathan Bani, _Barnabas_, _Jonathan_, _Jonathan_, _Caleb I._), born in New York City, 14 April, 1845; married 25 Oct., 1866, by Rev. F. Rallston Smith, D. D., to HARRIET MOORES, daughter of Charles W. Moores and Susan Ann Mallory.

Children, born at White Stone, L. I.:

1. Charles Edmund.

2. Elizabeth Mallory, both died young.

Harriet Moores Horton died in 1872. He married 2. in the Reformed Church, Port Richmond, Staten Island, 11 Nov., 1874, by the Rev. Dr. James Brownlee, to KATE CROCHERON BROWNLEE, eldest daughter of the officiating clergyman, and born at the parsonage in Port Richmond, Staten Island, on the 9 Feb., 1845.

Mr. Horton is a clerk and bookkeeper for the Howe Sewing Machine Co., in the city of New York.

_Ninth Generation.--Caleb I._

I. DR. SAMUEL MILLER, son of Nathan White Horton and Rosanna Miller (_Henry_, _Nathan_, _Richard_, _Caleb_, _Barnabas_, _Caleb I._), born at Broadtop, Pa., 5 May, 1835; studied medicine with Dr. John Lowman, of Johnstown, Pa., and graduated at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in the Class of 1862. He married SARAH DUNNICA, daughter of the Hon. Judge Dunnica, of St. Louis, Mo. They have three children: names not given. He is now (1874) a Surgeon in the U. S. Army, and stationed at Fort McKavitt, Texas. He was breveted Major at the battle of Vicksburg.

II. JOSEPH MILLER, son of Nathan White Horton and Rosanna Miller, born at Broadtop, Bedford Co., Pa., 22 April, 1840; married in Philadelphia, 19 May, 1864, by the Rev. M. C. Sutphin, to BELL MATHEWS LEE, daughter of Matthias H. Lee and Ellen Mathews, of Philadelphia, born in Philadelphia, in 1836; died 8 Jan., 1871.

Children, born in Philadelphia:

1. Laura born 1 Oct., 1867; died in infancy.

2. Walter, born in 1868; died in early infancy. (Twins.)

3. Harrison, in 1868; died in early infancy.

He married 2. in Philadelphia, 14 Oct., 1875, CLARA EUGENIA GIRVIN, daughter of John Girvin and Emily Bowman, and born in Philadelphia.

Mr. Horton is now, and has been for about twelve years past, compositor in the "_Evening Bulletin Office_," Philadelphia. He has had charge of the Religious department of that paper for about eight years past. He is the Philadelphia correspondent of the "_Nashville Bulletin_." He was a Union soldier, served one year, and was honorably discharged. He edits the "_Home Circle_," a monthly literary journal, published in Philadelphia. He is an active member of the Spring Garden Presbyterian Church, and is also a member of the Board of Trustees. In October, 1874, he formed a partnership with R. F. Thorne and E. C. Cake, under the name of Thorne, Cake & Co., and they are now the proprietors of the Home Circle Publishing Company, of Philadelphia.

He is a ready, racy writer, and possesses a mind of good culture, enjoying the confidence and respect of all who know him.