NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11957 CAMPBELL CO – WALTER JAMES VAN HORN – Van Horn, Murray, Patterson, Cloyd, Anderson, Colton, Chutes 11957: Pike County Missouri History, Des Moines, Iowa, Mills and Company, 1883. Campbell Co. Walter James Van Horn was born near Campbell county, Kentucky, February 8, 1818, where he was raised and educated. His father dying when he was very young, he lived with his mother until manhood. He began life for himself by being variously employed until 1842, when he embarked in the manufacture of tobacco at Union, Boone county, Kentucky, where he followed it only a short time, when he went to Covington, Kentucky, where he continued in the same business until 1848, when he removed to Louisiana, Missouri, where, with his brothers, William M. and Archibald, he engaged in the manufacture of plug and fine cut tobacco, they being the pioneer tobacconists of Louisiana. In 1863 they discontinued the business at Louisiana, when he, with the same brothers and Edward C. Murray, went to Chicago, Illinois, and engaged in the manufacture of tobacco as Van Horn, Murray & Co. Their co-partnership was dissolved in 1866, when he, with his son, Cassius, his brother Archibald and J. H. Patterson, in the firm style of A. M. Van Horn & Co., engaged in distilling at Chicago, having a large distillery, carrying on an extensive business for one year, when their distillery was burned. Returning to Louisiana in 1877 he, with his son and brother, purchased the old tobacco factory at Louisiana, which also burned down the same year. He and his son Cassius then engaged in the same business at Warsaw, Illinois, until 1869, when he retired from business and returned to Louisiana, where he died in 1879. In 1859 Mr. Van Horn invented a machine for manufacturing flat lump tobacco and is the original inventor of that kind of machinery. In 1842 he married Sarah W. Cloyd, of Boone county, Kentucky, by whom he has had six children, one of whom died in infancy; Cassius, of Louisiana; Cornelia, wife of W. W. Anderson, Louisiana; Addie, wife of W. F. Colton, of Salt Lake City, Utah; Mary S., wife of James A. Chutes, of Lincoln, Nebraska, and Clara R., who died in Chicago in 1865, at four years of age. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH Archives:http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kyresearch