Ogemaw County MI Archives Military Records.....Horton, James 
Civilwar 16th NY Inf/Co. A
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Horton, James
JAMES HORTON DIES AFTER SHORT ILLNESS  James E. Horton, for many years an 
honorable resident of this county, passed away at his residence Saturday 
morning at 6 o'clock, following a brief illness due to his advanced age.  Mr. 
Horton can surely be numbered among the honored pioneer members of Ogemaw 
county as more than fifty years have passed since he located in this county, 
and with its history and development he had since been identified very 
closely.  On Sept. 27, 1925 Mr. Horton would have reached the ripe old age of 
eighty-two, having been born at Ogdenburg, N.Y., Sept. 27, 1843, of an English 
father and Puritan mother.  On the thirteenth day of November 1868, he was 
united in marriage to Miss Janet McCormick of Lancaster, Ont., at Ogdenburg, 
N.Y.  He enlised at the breaking out of the Civil war under the first call of 
President Lincoln for volunteers and served in Company A 16th N.Y. Infty., for 
a period of two years, his whole service being in the army of the Potomac 
operating between Richmond and Washington.  He was wounded June 27, 1862 in 
one of the battles before Richmond, and was mustered out of service May 22, 
1863, term of enlistment having expired.  Returning home to his native city he 
soon received an appointment as a custom house officer at his home port, where 
he served for nearly three years or until President Johnston decapitated him 
with many other employees of the service.  Mr. Horton was afterwards appointed 
a deputy sheriff of his home county and served as such until 1868 when his 
term of office expired, and in Feb., 1868 he journeyed to Michigan, landing in 
Saginaw, where he found employment in one of the saw mills of that district, 
but soon met with an accident by which he lost his right hand on a circular 
saw.  Remaining in Saginaw until Dec. 1874, when he came to Greenwood, Ogemaw 
county, looking for land and finding this locality to his taste, determined to 
make his home in it.  At the first election held in Edwards township, Mr. 
Horton was chosen clerk and the following year was elected supervisor of the 
present townships of Edwards, Horton, Mills and Richland.  He also served as 
Superintendent of Schools of the townships of Horton and Edwards and 
postmaster at Greenwood until the fall of 1878, when he was elected Register 
of Deeds for Ogemaw county, being re-elected four terms.  Following the years 
of service to his home people, Mr. Horton has frequently been employed during 
sessions of the legislature at Lansing, first being appointed a committee 
clerk in the lower house in 1887.  Besides his widow Mr. Horton is survived by 
two sons, Edward Horton of this city, and R. M. Horton of LosAngeles; two 
daughters, Mrs. B. D. Mitchell of Lansing, and Mrs. H. Palm of this city; one 
brother, Geo. M. Horton of North Branch; and three sisters, Mrs. O. H. Day of 
this city, Mrs. L. H. Tovatt of Standish and Mrs. Edward Bartlett of Saginaw.  
The funeral services were held at the M.E. Church at 2 o'clock, Monday, Rev. 
Priestly officiating, and burial was made in Brookside.  Members of Grayling 
N.L.V.S. and L.N.L. attended the funeral services; also members of the Ogemaw 
County American Legion in uniform, who acted as honorary pall bearers.

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