Brief Life History of Henry B.
When Henry B. Horton was born on 4 April 1873, in Lockridge Township, Jefferson, Iowa, United States, his father, Rev. Samuel T Horton, was 39 and his mother, Ellenora Crenshaw, was 24. He married Unia Croff on 20 December 1898, in Fairfield, Jefferson, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Jefferson, Iowa, United States in 1935 and Union Township, Van Buren, Iowa, United States in 1940. He died on 9 May 1961, in Lockridge Township, Jefferson, Iowa, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Lockridge Township, Jefferson, Iowa, United States.
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- Henry Horton, "United States Census, 1940"
- Henry Horton, "Iowa Marriages, 1809-1992"
- Henry Horton, "Find A Grave Index"
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1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1884 · There is now a Capital Building
The capitol building in Des Moines originally had a budget of $1,500,000 but complications arose because of the need of a redesign. The building was dedicated on January 17, 1884, but it wasn’t completed until 1886. On January 4, 1904, a fire started and swept through the areas that housed the Supreme Court and Iowa House of Representatives. A major restoration was performed and documented, with the addition of electrical lighting, elevators, and a telephone system. By the early 1980s, the sandstone exterior of the Capitol had started deteriorating and prompted the installation of canopies to protect pedestrians from falling rubble. The entire reconstruction process took around 18 years to complete.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
English (Staffordshire and Warwickshire): habitational name from one or other of the many places so called, such as those in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Northamptonshire, Shropshire, Somerset, Staffordshire, Wiltshire, and Yorkshire. Most of the placenames derive from Old English horh or horu ‘dirt, filth’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, though some may have different origins, including Horton in Gloucestershire, which may derive from Old English heorot ‘hart, stag’ + tūn.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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