Tuscola-Macomb-Ottawa County MI Archives Biographies.....Horton, Wilbur F. 1840 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

WILBUR F. HORTON. This gentleman, whose biographical sketch it is a pleasure to
give, is a resident on section 14, Arbela Township, Tuscola County. He is a
native of New Hampshire, having been born in that State February 26, 1840. He is
the son of Cyrus E. Horton, also a native of the Granite State, who was reared
mostly in Vermont, where he met and married the mother of our subject—Miss
Sallie Horton, a native of Vermont. To the parents of our subject were born five
children, three sons and two daughters. Mrs. Horton died in New Hampshire in
August, 1844, and Mr. Horton was again married to a daughter of the Granite
State, by name Miss Dorothy Robbins. Eight children, five sons and three
daughters, were born of this union.

  Our subject was reared in New Hampshire, remaining there until reaching his
majority, when, in 1861, he went to Vermont, and there met and married Miss
Josephine Rogers, a daughter of Charles Rogers, a native of the Green Mountain
State. The parents of Mrs. Horton emigrated to New York, living there a number
of years when they, wishing to see something of the Western country, came to
Michigan, locating in Genesee County, where the father passed the remainder of
his days, dying in 1878.

  Mr. and Mrs. Horton have one son, Manson P. Mr. Horton came to Michigan in
1871, making Macomb County his first stopping place, and where he followed the
honorable calling of an agriculturist. He had learned the trade of a carpenter,
but finding farming more to his taste abandoned the former to a great extent.
Leaving Macomb County, he located in Ottawa County, and thence went to Wexford
County, making a final settlement in Tuscola County. In 1881 he purchased a
tract of eighty acres in Arbela Township, which tract he now owns. He has
cleared most of it from its primitive wildness and made it valuable by the
erection of good and substantial buildings, such as are necessary to an
enterprising and progressive agriculturist.

  Socially Mr. Horton was identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows
for a number of years, but has gradually given up his allegiance to the same. He
gives his political influence to the Prohibition party, believing that party to
be in the right. He has been Justice of the Peace in Wexford County while a
resident there. The grandfather of our subject was Asa Horton, a native of New
Hampshire, and the father of Asa Horton, was Joseph Horton, the
great-grandfather of our subject; he was a native of England. Respected and
honored by all who know him, Mr. Horton deserves representation in his county's
history.


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Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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