Nobles County MN Archives Biographies.....Horton, Isaac 1822 - 1890
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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

ISAAC HORTON (1822-1890). Among the first settlers of Nobles county, and the

very first to settle in what is now Indian Lake township, was Isaac Horton.



  Mr. Horton was born in Oneida county, N. Y., in 1822. In a very early day he

moved to Michigan and was there employed as a millwright; Returning to New York

state, he was married, and then came to Minnesota, settling on Indian land near

Lake City. Later he moved to Olmstead county, where he purchased land. In the

year 1867 he moved to Spirit Lake, Iowa, rented a farm near that place and for

two years engaged in farming.



  It was during his residence near Spirit Lake that Mr. Horton first became

acquainted with the country which was later to be organized as Nobles county,

and so early as 1867 he visited the Indian lake country hunting elk, in the

taking of which he was always successful. He liked the looks of the country, and

decided that some day he would make it his home. On May 6, 1869, at a time when

there was not a settler in the whole of Nobles county outside of Graham Lakes

township, he came to the county and filed a preemption claim to the cast half of

section 34, on the east shore of Indian lake. On October 3, of the same year, he

brought his family from Spirit Lake, erected a log house (18x24) of oak logs cut

from his claim, and for seventeen years made his home there. He then sold and

purchased the southwest quarter of section 22, Indian Lake, erected a good house

thereon, and resided, there with his family until his death, which occurred in

October, 1890. Although Mr. Horton would never accept an office, he took a

prominent part in the affairs of the county during the early days. The first

county election in which the people of Indian Lake township participated was

held at his house.



  The widow, Charlotte (Hare) Horton, resides at Round Lake and is 77 years of

age. To Mr. and Mrs. Horton were born the following children: John (deceased),

Elvira (Mrs. J. P. Stevens), Little Falls, Minn,; Edna (deceased), Hattie (Mrs.

Al. Tygall), Corvallis, Oregon; Cora (Mrs. F. H. Wells), Salem, Oregon; Frank

H., Round Lake; Charles, Round Lake; Lucy (Mrs. Henry M. Anderson), Bloom

township; Clara (Mrs. Elmer Tripp), Round Lake; Emma (Mrs. Dan Bixby),

Worthington; Herbert, Worthington; Lottie (Mrs. Herman Miller), Round Lake.



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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF NOBLES COUNTY

MINNESOTA

BY

ARTHUR P. ROSE



NORTHERN HISTORY PUBLISHING COMPANY 

WORTHINGTON, MINNESOTA 

PUBLISHERS

1908



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