Newaygo County MI Archives Biographies.....Horning, William H. February 28, 1849 - 
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WILLIAM H. HORNING, lumberman, located on section 23, Monroe Township, was 
born in Bradford Co., Pa., Feb. 

28, 1849, and is a son of James and Harriet A. (Barfield) Horning.  His 
parents were both natives of the 

State of New York, and are deceased.  The father died in 1853, and the mother 
removed with her family to 

De Kalb Co., Ill., where the son attended district school.  When he reached 
the age of ten years he took 

upon himself the burden of his own support, working on a farm till he was 17 
years of age, when, in Feb. 

1865, he enlisted in Co. C, Ninth Ill. Cav.  He served until the close of the 
war, and on his discharge 

went to Pennsylvania, where he attended Mansfield College one year.  He then 
went to Wisconsin and engaged 

in lumbering, working a short time in the woods, after which he went to 
California, Oregon and Washington 

Territory, spending a year on the trip.  He returned east and located at Sand 
Lake, Kent County, where he 

engaged in the manufacture of lumber and shingles.  After a residence there of 
eight years he came, in 

1871, to Newaygo County, where he engaged in lumbering, in connection with 
Samuel Hart.

Mr. Horning was married at Sand Lake, Kent County, in 1873, to Harriet, 
daughter of James and Harriet 

Kinney.  She was born in Michigan in 1852.  Three children have been born of 
this marriage:  Angeline, 

Evaline and Arthur.  The last named died in 1881.

The first saw-mill erected by Mr. Horning and his partner cost about $2,000, 
and was destroyed by fire in 

1881.  They immediately re-built; and up to the present writing (1883) have 
manufactured in the aggregate 

30,000,000 feet of pine lumber.  Their present product is about 30,000 feet of 
lumber daily.  Mr. Horning 

has officiated as Township Treasurer of Monroe, and is a member of the 
I.O.O.F. of Sand Lake, Kent County.

Additional Comments:
1884 Portrait & Bio Album of Newaygo County.

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