HENRY B. HORTON, one of the pioneers of Chicago and the proprietor before the fire of one of the largest printing plants in the city, died on Saturday at the residence of his son, Benjamin P. Horton, in Oak Park.
--Chicago Tribune 7 September 1908, pg. 11
HENRY BEACH HORTON, of Chicago Ill., son of Stephen and Laura [Beach] Horton, was born at Skaneateles, N. Y., his parents' home, March 19th, 1827.
He was fitted for college at Geneva, N. Y., entered Geneva College (now Hobart Free) in the autumn of 1843, and soon after joined the Alpha Delta Phi Society there. At the end of Sophomore year left Geneva, and the following term, autumn of 1845, entered Junior at Williams, where, there being then no branch of the Alpha Delta Phi, he was free to join our own Society.
After graduation in 1847, he went into the produce commission business in Mansfield, O., and in 1851 married Adaline, daughter of Lieut.-Governor Holabird, of Winsted, Conn. Mrs. Horton died April 3d, 1856, leaving a son, who is still living. Her husband soon after removed ot Clinton, Ia., where in 1858 he took charge of the Clinton Herald, a weekly journal. This he edited during five years, serving in the mean time as City Treasurer and as Mayor successively.
In 1861, Mr. Horton married Amanda J. Webster, of Elgin, Ill., and in 1863 removed to Chicago, where he joined in establishing the job-printing house of Horton & Leonard, which soon became one of the largest and best known in the West. But the great fire of 1871 swept away in a few hours the establishment which had been so successfully conducted, and the fortune embraced in it. Since then he has been engaged in the insurance business, having organized the Millers' Mutual Insurance Company, with which he is connected.
--A biographical record of the Kappa Alpha Society in Williams College (1880.)
First wife Adeline Holabird died in 1856 in Connecticut--they had a son named John Holabird Horton, who was born in Elgin, Illinois on July 31, 1853.
--Chicago Tribune 7 September 1908, pg. 11
HENRY BEACH HORTON, of Chicago Ill., son of Stephen and Laura [Beach] Horton, was born at Skaneateles, N. Y., his parents' home, March 19th, 1827.
He was fitted for college at Geneva, N. Y., entered Geneva College (now Hobart Free) in the autumn of 1843, and soon after joined the Alpha Delta Phi Society there. At the end of Sophomore year left Geneva, and the following term, autumn of 1845, entered Junior at Williams, where, there being then no branch of the Alpha Delta Phi, he was free to join our own Society.
After graduation in 1847, he went into the produce commission business in Mansfield, O., and in 1851 married Adaline, daughter of Lieut.-Governor Holabird, of Winsted, Conn. Mrs. Horton died April 3d, 1856, leaving a son, who is still living. Her husband soon after removed ot Clinton, Ia., where in 1858 he took charge of the Clinton Herald, a weekly journal. This he edited during five years, serving in the mean time as City Treasurer and as Mayor successively.
In 1861, Mr. Horton married Amanda J. Webster, of Elgin, Ill., and in 1863 removed to Chicago, where he joined in establishing the job-printing house of Horton & Leonard, which soon became one of the largest and best known in the West. But the great fire of 1871 swept away in a few hours the establishment which had been so successfully conducted, and the fortune embraced in it. Since then he has been engaged in the insurance business, having organized the Millers' Mutual Insurance Company, with which he is connected.
--A biographical record of the Kappa Alpha Society in Williams College (1880.)
First wife Adeline Holabird died in 1856 in Connecticut--they had a son named John Holabird Horton, who was born in Elgin, Illinois on July 31, 1853.
HENRY B. HORTON, one of the pioneers of Chicago and the proprietor before the fire of one of the largest printing plants in the city, died on Saturday at the residence of his son, Benjamin P. Horton, in Oak Park.
--Chicago Tribune 7 September 1908, pg. 11
HENRY BEACH HORTON, of Chicago Ill., son of Stephen and Laura [Beach] Horton, was born at Skaneateles, N. Y., his parents' home, March 19th, 1827.
He was fitted for college at Geneva, N. Y., entered Geneva College (now Hobart Free) in the autumn of 1843, and soon after joined the Alpha Delta Phi Society there. At the end of Sophomore year left Geneva, and the following term, autumn of 1845, entered Junior at Williams, where, there being then no branch of the Alpha Delta Phi, he was free to join our own Society.
After graduation in 1847, he went into the produce commission business in Mansfield, O., and in 1851 married Adaline, daughter of Lieut.-Governor Holabird, of Winsted, Conn. Mrs. Horton died April 3d, 1856, leaving a son, who is still living. Her husband soon after removed ot Clinton, Ia., where in 1858 he took charge of the Clinton Herald, a weekly journal. This he edited during five years, serving in the mean time as City Treasurer and as Mayor successively.
In 1861, Mr. Horton married Amanda J. Webster, of Elgin, Ill., and in 1863 removed to Chicago, where he joined in establishing the job-printing house of Horton & Leonard, which soon became one of the largest and best known in the West. But the great fire of 1871 swept away in a few hours the establishment which had been so successfully conducted, and the fortune embraced in it. Since then he has been engaged in the insurance business, having organized the Millers' Mutual Insurance Company, with which he is connected.
--A biographical record of the Kappa Alpha Society in Williams College (1880.)
First wife Adeline Holabird died in 1856 in Connecticut--they had a son named John Holabird Horton, who was born in Elgin, Illinois on July 31, 1853.
--Chicago Tribune 7 September 1908, pg. 11
HENRY BEACH HORTON, of Chicago Ill., son of Stephen and Laura [Beach] Horton, was born at Skaneateles, N. Y., his parents' home, March 19th, 1827.
He was fitted for college at Geneva, N. Y., entered Geneva College (now Hobart Free) in the autumn of 1843, and soon after joined the Alpha Delta Phi Society there. At the end of Sophomore year left Geneva, and the following term, autumn of 1845, entered Junior at Williams, where, there being then no branch of the Alpha Delta Phi, he was free to join our own Society.
After graduation in 1847, he went into the produce commission business in Mansfield, O., and in 1851 married Adaline, daughter of Lieut.-Governor Holabird, of Winsted, Conn. Mrs. Horton died April 3d, 1856, leaving a son, who is still living. Her husband soon after removed ot Clinton, Ia., where in 1858 he took charge of the Clinton Herald, a weekly journal. This he edited during five years, serving in the mean time as City Treasurer and as Mayor successively.
In 1861, Mr. Horton married Amanda J. Webster, of Elgin, Ill., and in 1863 removed to Chicago, where he joined in establishing the job-printing house of Horton & Leonard, which soon became one of the largest and best known in the West. But the great fire of 1871 swept away in a few hours the establishment which had been so successfully conducted, and the fortune embraced in it. Since then he has been engaged in the insurance business, having organized the Millers' Mutual Insurance Company, with which he is connected.
--A biographical record of the Kappa Alpha Society in Williams College (1880.)
First wife Adeline Holabird died in 1856 in Connecticut--they had a son named John Holabird Horton, who was born in Elgin, Illinois on July 31, 1853.
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