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 IIORTON. IIORTON. has an office in Barnstable. In 1886 he became editor of the " Provincetown Ad- vocate." Mr. Hopkins was elected a com- missioner of insolvency for the county of Barnstable from 1S87 to '90 ; appointed one of the trial justices for the county of Barnstable in 1885. In 1888 he was made treasurer of the First Universalist church of Provincetown ; has been secretary, treasurer, and trustee of Mayflower coun- cil, ion Royal Arcanum ; director of the Provincetown Building Association, and clerk of the Provincetown Boot & Shoe Company. In 1888 he was elected a special commissioner for the county of Barnstable, and was elected one of the trustees of the Provincetown public library in 1889. HORTON, Edward Augustus, son of William Marshal and Ann (Leonard) Horton, was born in Springfield, Hampden county, September 28, 1843. He studied at Springfield, in the public schools; moved to Chicago in 1856, and lived there six years. During that time the civil war broke out, and he enlisted in the navy, going to Brooklyn, N.Y., for that purpose. He was then eighteen years old. Mr. Horton served as landsman in the South Atlantic squadron, under Commo- dores Dupont and Dahlgren, a little more than a year. His craft, the steam gun- boat "Seneca," assisted in blockading Charleston, in attacking Forts Wagner and Sumter, and in destroying the priva- teer " Nashville." On his return to civil life he began vigorous preparations for college, crowd- ing the successive steps, and entering with- out conditions the class of 1869 at the University of Michigan. Owing to cer- tain obstacles not easily overcome, of a kind which young men without means usually encounter, he remained but a little while at the university. Feeling the need of abridging his time of study, he went at once to the theological school at Mead- ville, Pa., and there not only prosecuted the regular course of three years, but maintained other studies, graduating in 1868. A graceful act was done by the Uni- versity of Michigan in 1880, in conferring on Mr. Horton the honorary degree of A. M. On graduating he had two invitations to settle — one from Flint, Mich., and one from Leominster, Mass. The latter was accepted, and Mr. Horton held the pastor- ate of that very large parish for seven years. During that period, in 1S71, he visited England, Switzerland and Germany, and spent a year in study at Brunswick and Heidelberg, his church generously granting a leave of absence. In the sum- mer of 1875 he accepted a call to New Orleans, but a severe and almost fatal ill- ness fell upon him, and the result of hard work was summed up in the order of the physicians to rest for two years. On December 1, 1S75, at Lancaster, he married Josephine Adelaide, daughter of Nathaniel and Ruth (Miles) Rand. They have one child : Ruth Horton, born Feb- ruary 24, 1877. The very day of his marriage he started for the South to regain his lost health. Two years seemed too long for idleness, and in a year's time he was at work again, having accepted a call to Hingham, as minister of the Old Church, famous for its quaint edifice, over two hundred years old. Here he remained, happy in his relations to his people and the town, three years, and then went to Boston, as pastor of the Second Church, Copley Square (founded in 1649). Since 1880 Mr. Horton has not only served this parish, but has been identified with various religious and philanthropic movements. Among his predecessors were the three Mathers, Henry Ware, Jr., Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Chandler Bobbins. The society has steadily grown under his charge, and is now full of vigor and pros- perity. Mr. Horton has been president of the Benevolent Fraternity of Churches ; presi- dent of the Unitarian Sunday-school Soci- ety, and director of the American Unitarian Association. He is a director of the Wash- ingtonian Home, of the North End Mis- sion, of the Home for Intemperate Women, and other organizations. He is closely connected with the Grand Army of the Republic, having served as chaplain of the State, and holding now the chaplaincy of E. W. Kinsley Post 113, in Boston. He is a trustee of Derby Academy, Hingham ; superintendent of Westford Academy, and visitor to the Howard Collegiate Institute. His literary reviews of books, and occa- sional contributions on general subjects, are confined mostly to the Boston press, and to the denominational papers and magazines. Among the other publications from his pen are discourses on Emerson and Garfield, delivered at the time of their death ; an address to the graduating class of iSSS, at the Boston College of Phar- macy ; three sermons on Unitarianism ; and a historical discourse commemorative of the 250th anniversary of the building of the Old Meeting House, in Hingham.