I have no further information on the following. Ref: William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas Atchison County - Part 18 Published in 1883 by A.T. Andreas, Chicago, Illinois CHIEF JUSTICE HORTON. The antiquity of the Horton family is established by the fact that one Robert de Horton manumitted a bondman to his manor of Horton, long before the time of Henry Larey, Earl of Lincoln, who died in 1310. It is also ascertained that the Hortons had a manor house in Great Horton, at a remote period. The word Horton, in the Anglo-Saxon language, means an exclosure, or garden of vegetables. It is said to be derived from ort and tun, ort meaning plant and tun enclosed. The name is evidently of latin origin and has been known in England ever since the conquest of Caesar. The Horton coat-of-arms in England is as follows: a stag's head cabossed, silver; attired, gold; and for distinction, a cantone ermine. Crest, out of the waves of the sea proper, a tilting spear erect,gold; enfiled with a dolphin, sliver finned, gold, and charged with a shell. The motto, "Quod vult, valde vult:" What he wills he wills cordially and without stint. William Horton, Esq., of Frith House in Barksland, Halifax, descended from the above mentioned Robert Horton. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Hanson, Esq., of Toothill and died about 1640. He had issue as follows: William Horton, of Barksland, or Bark Island Hall, who purchased in the fifteenth of Charles I, the estate of Howroyde, was born about 1576; Joseph Horton, born about 1578. Barnabas Horton, the ancestor of the Horton family in America, was the son of Joseph Horton, above mentioned, and was born in the little hamlet of Mously, Leicestershire, on the 13th of July (old style), 1600. He came over in the ship "Swallow," between 1633 and '38, and landed at Hampton. Mass. In 1640, he came to New Haven, Conn., and on the 21st day of October, 1640, assisted by the venerable Rev. John Davenport and Gov. Eaton, organized themselves into a Congregational Church and sallied to the east end of Long Island, now Southold. They had all been members of Puritan churches in England. He built the first frame dwelling house ever erected on the east of Long Island, and that house, in 1876, was still standing and occupied. He died at Southold, on the 13th day of July, 1680, aged eighty years. This Barnabas Horton is known in the history of the Horton family as "Barnabas, the old Puritan. " He was a man of sincere piety, and a warm advocate of civil and religious freedom. His third son was born in the autumn of 1640, and was called Caleb. He settled at Cutchoque, Southold Township, Long Island, and died October 3, 1702. Caleb's first child was born September 23, 1666, and was named Barnabas, after the "Old Puritan. " Barnabas, number two, had a second son who was also named Barnabs, who was born in Southold, Long Island, about 1690. In 1732, he moved to Goshen, N. Y. The fifth son of Barnabas the third was born in Southold, Long Island, in 1730, and was named Silas. The sixth child of Silas was born the 30th of June, 1770, in Goshen, N. Y., and was also called Barnabas. He married in 1794, Millicent Howell, and dies October 24, 1823, in Minnisink, Orange County, N. Y. The third child of Barnabas the fourth was born in Goshen, N. Y., February 1, 1800, and was named Harvey. He was married to Mary Bennett, and died May 10, 1840. His children were as follows: Harvey Addison, born March 13, 1832; Millicent Ellen, born September 3, 1833, and Albert Howell, born March 12, 1837. Dr. Harvey Horton was an educated and skillful physician, and practiced his profession with success in Minnisink and the adjoining towns, and enjoyed the confidence of all who knew him. His son, Harvey Addison, was instantly killed September 3, 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, Mo. The bridge had been partly burned by the Confederates, but left standing, ready to fall when the cars came upon it. Millicent Ellen died March 24, 1841. Albert Howell Horton, the subject of this sketch, is the second son of Dr. Harvey Horton and Mary Bennett. He was born near Brookfield, in the town of Minnisink, Orange Co., N. Y., March 12, 1837. He attended the public schools of West Town, N. Y., until thirteen years of age, and then was prepared for college at the "Farmers' Hall Academy," at Goshen, Orange Co., N. Y. In 1855, entered the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Mich., as a freshman, and remained two years, but was obliged to leave college on account of inability to study, owing to an affection of the eyes. In 1858, he entered the law office of Hon. J. W. Gott, at Goshen, N. Y., as a law student, and remained there until December 15, 1858, when he was admitted as a counselor and attorney-at-law, at a general term of the Supreme Court, held in Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1859, he came West, with his brother, Dr. Harvey A. Horton, and selected Atchison, Kan., as his home, and has resided there ever since. In 1860, he was appointed the City Attorney of Atchison by the Mayor, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of the elected City Attorney. In the Spring of 1861, he was elected City Attorney of the city, upon the Republican ticket. In September, 1861, he was appointed District Judge of the Second Judicial District of the State of Kansas, by Gov. Charles Robinson. He was twice elected to the same office and then resigned, to resume the practice of his profession. In 1868, he was elected one of the Electors on the Republican State ticket of Kansas, and was selected as the messenger to take the vote of Kansas to Washington. From 1861 to 1864, in addition to attending to the duties of Judge of the District Court, he assisted in editing the Weekly Champion, a newspaper printed and published at Atchison City. On May 26, 1864, he was married at Middletown, N. Y., to Anna Amelia Robertson, daughter of William Wells Robertson and Adeline Sayer. The children born to them since their marriage are as follows: Carrie Robertson, born in Middletown, N. Y., April 22, 1865; Mary Bennett, born in Atchison, Kan., July 12, 1868; Rosa Sayer, born in Atchison Kan., June 2, 1871; Albert Howell, Jr., born in Atchison, Kan., April 1, 1874. In May, 1869, Mr. Horton was appointed by President Grant, U. S. District Attorney for Kansas, and held the office until his resignation on July 18, 1873. In November, 1873, he was elected to the House of Representatives of the Legislature of Kansas, from Atchison City, and in November, 1876, was elected State Senator to represent Atchison County. January 1, 1877, he resigned the office of State Senator to accept the appointment of Chief Justice of Kansas, tendered him by Hon. Thomas A. Osborn, the Governor of the State of Kansas. Under this appointment he held the office of Chief Justice until the regular election in the fall of 1877, when he was elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of his predecessor, Hon. Samuel A. Kingman. In November, 1878, he was elected Chief Justice of the State for a full term of six years, and holds that office at this time. At the session of the Kansas Legislature, held in 1879, the Republicans had a large majority of the members, but were unable to agree upon a caucus nominee for the U. S. Senator. His name was presented as one of the Republican candidates to be voted for, and upon the final ballot in the joint convention of the Legislature, he received eighty votes. John J. Ingalls received eighty-six votes, and was declared elected. Three votes were scattering. Mr. Horton has been for years a member of the orders of Free Masons and Knights of Honor. He has also been one of the contributing editors of the Central Law Journal of St. Louis, Mo. ever since his promotion to the supreme bench. He is one of the vestry of Trinity Parish, Atchison, and is also a trustee of Christ's (Episcopal) Hospital at Topeka. He is now in the prime of life, in excellent health, and has before him, in the ordinary course of things, many years of activity and usefulness.