Catherine Horner

Brief Life History of Catherine

When Catherine Horner was born on 24 November 1814, in Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Samuel Solomon Horner, was 31 and her mother, Magdalene Kimmel, was 26. She married Samuel Reed Livingston about 1830, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died on 24 March 1839, in her hometown, at the age of 24, and was buried in Sala-Livingston Farm Cemetery, Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Family Time Line

Samuel Reed Livingston
1810–1897
Catherine Horner
1814–1839
Marriage: about 1830
Mary Jane Livingston
1834–1908
Josiah H. Livingston
1836–1925

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  • Catherine Horner Livingston, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (7)

1819 · Panic! of 1819

With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years. 

1820 · Making States Equal

The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.

1825 · The Crimes Act

The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.

Name Meaning

English (North Yorkshire) and German: from Horn 1 with the agent suffix -er; used either as an occupational name for someone who made or sold small articles made of horn (Middle English hornere), a metonymic occupational name for someone who played a musical instrument made from the horn of an animal, or a topographic name for someone who lived at a ‘horn’ of land. In the Middle Ages whole horns were used for many purposes: as drinking vessels, as containers, as wind instruments for sounding an alarm and for signalling to others (e.g. when hunting). Pieces of horn were used to make spoons, buttons, combs, handles, decorative tips for rods, and other things. The horner's craft could include making musical horns as well as sheets of translucent horn for windows and for covering books. For example, Thomas Hornar of Petergate in York was paid for ‘hornyng et naillyng’ the superscribed covers of books in York Minster library in 1421.

German (also Hörner): from any of various places called Horn, referring to their location at a spur of land, at a horn shaped piece of land.

Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Horn 5.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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