Thank you for the bio. This is great! ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: [email protected] Reply-To: [email protected] Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 23:58:55 EST >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. > > > > > > > >==== HORTON Mailing List ==== >To subscribe to Larry Stephens' Regional lists, covering all parts of the USA, go to: http://php.indiana.edu/~stephenl/genealog.htm >List manager is Jim Young <[email protected]> >======================================================= > > ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the WebMail system at mind4.mindsync.com