Horton, Thomas R
congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1855 to 1857.
HORTON, VALENTINE BAXTER, manufacturer, was born Jan. 29, 1802, in Windsor, Vt. He was a member of the Ohio constitutional convention of 1850.
In 1854 he was elected a representative to the thirty-fourth congress; was re-elected to the thirty-fifth and thirty-seventh congresses. He died Jan. 14, 1888, in Pomeroy, Ohio.
HORWITZ, PHINEAS JONATHAN, surgeon, was born March 3, 1822, in Baltimore, Md. From 1859 till 1865 he was assistant to the bureau of medicine, and chief of that bureau in 1865-69. He was promoted surgeon in 1861, commissioned medical inspector in 1871, medical director in 1873, and was retired with the relative rank of captain in 1885.