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HORTON, Albert Howell, jurist, was born near Brookliekl, N.V., Miircli 12, 1837; son of Dr. Harvey A. ami Mary (Bennett) Ilorton. ami a descendant of Barnabas Horton, uf ]\[uusly, Leicestershire, England, who immigrated to America before 1638 and settled first in llainptun, Mass., then, in 1G40, in New Haven, Conn., and finallj- in Southold, L.I. He was prepared for college in the academy at Goshen, N. Y., and matriculated at the University of Michigan in 1856, leaving iu 18oS to study law. He was ad- mitted to practice in Brooklyn, N. Y.. in 1800. and settled in Atchison. Kansas. He was city attorney of Atchison in April, 1861, and was appointed in September district judge of the second judicial district of Kansas by Governor Charles Robinson, and was elected in November, 1861, and re-elected in 1865. He edited the Weekly Champion with John James Ingalls in Atchison, 1861-64; was a Republican presidential elector in 1868, and was appointed U.S. attorney for Kansas by President Grant in May, 1869. He represented the city of Atchison in the state legislature in 1873, and Atchison county in the state .senate in 1876, re- signing Jan. 1, 1877, upon being appointed chief justice of the supreme court of Kansas by Gov- ernor Osbom to fill out an unexpired term. He was re-elected in 1878, 18S4 and 1890. He re- signed in 1895 and settled in the practice of law with the firm of Waggener, Horton & Orr, at Topeka, Kan. The University of Michigan con- ferred upon him the honorary degree of LL.D. in 1889. He died in Topeka, Kan., Sei)t. 2, 1902.

HORTON, Edward Augustus, clergyman, was born in Springfield, Mass., Sept. 28, 1843; son of William Marshall and Ann (Leonard) Horton. His early education was obtained at the public schools at Springfield and at Chicago, III., where his parents re- moved in 1859. When ^: ^- -^ the civil war broke

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doned his studies and enlisted in the navy, serving as " lands- man " in the South Atlantic squadron, under Commodores Dujiont and Dahl- gren. He was on the gunboat Seneca at the time of the blockade of Ciiarles- ton, S.C., and took part in the attacks on forts Wagner and Sumter, and in the destructi(m of the Confederate privateer Naahville. On his return from the war he prepared for college and entered the University of Michigan in 1865, but

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soon transferred to the Meadville Theological school, Pa., and was graduated in 1868. He took charge of a parish in Leominster, Mass., and during his pastorate travelled abroad, studying at Brunswick and Heidelberg, lie was married, Dec. 1, 1875, to Josephine Adelaide, daughter of Nathaniel and Ruth Rand, of Lancaster, Mass., and after a vacation trip for the benefit of his health, he was pastor at Hingham, Mass., 1877-80, and of the Second church, Boston, Mass., 1880- 92. In 1892 he became secretary of the Benevo- lent Fraternity of Churches and president of the Unitarian Sunday School society, and was also chairman of the committee on the settlement of ministers and vacant pastorates of the Unitarian church; superintendent of the Westford acad- emy, Mass.; trustee of Derby academy, Hing- ham, Mass.; manager of the Home for Intem- perate Women, the Washington home, and of the North End mission. He was also closely connect- ed with the Grand Army of the Republic; serv- ing as chaplain of the department of Massachu- setts and of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery company. He received the degree of A.M. from the University of Michigan in 1880. He is the author of: Unitarianism: TMiat Did It Set Out to Do 9 What Has It Accomplished 9 What Is lis Future 9 (1888); Unitarianism: Does It Accept the Personality of Christ 9 (1889); Vnitarianism: Wliat docs It Stand For 9 (1889); AoWe Lives and Xuble Deeds (1890); ten manuals for class work in Sunday-schools, and numerous addresses and sermons.

HORTON, Samuel Dana, publicist, was born in Pomeroy, Ohio, Jan, 16, 1844; son of the Hon. Valentine Baxter and Clara Alsop (Pomeroy) Horton. He was prepared for college in Pomeroy and at a classical school in Cincinnati, and was graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1864, A.M., 1867. Immediately after graduation he visited the Azores, and went thence to Europe, returning to Pomeroy in 1865. He devoted himself to the studj- of the languages and history, and wrote the Bowdoin prize essay in 1865. In 1866 he entered Harvard Law school and was graduated LL.B. in 1868. He spent 1868-69 in European travel and as a student of jurisprudence at the University of Berlin. He returned home in 1870, was admitted to the bar, Jan. 1, 1871, and prac- tised law in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1871-74, and in Pomeroy, 1874-95. During the campaign of 1870 he made speeches in German in Ohio and A\ est Virginia. He made a special .study of monetary science and became recognized as an authority on that subject. He advocated the .settlement of the question of ratio between gold and silver by the joint action of nations, and visited the various European ca])itals. .where he advanced the plan. In 1876 his treatise on " Silver and Gold and