Bio of Horner, Rev. John Wesley (b.1852) Wabasha Co., MN
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Horner, Rev. John Wesley, pastor Congregational church, Lake City, was
born at Lanesville, Harrison county, Indiana, September 6, 1852, and is a
son of Jacob Horner, a prominent physician. At the age of fifteen he
entered the state university at Bloomington, Indiana, where he diligently
pursued his preparatory course four years. At the age of twenty-one he
entered the Yale Theological Seminary, at New Haven, Connecticut, from
which he graduated in May, 1876. He soon after entered upon his
ministerial labors at Bloomfield, Iowa, where he was ordained October 9,
1876. While on this charge he was married to Miss Orpha Morgan, on May 10,
1877, and who died May 27, 1878, while he was in charge of the church at
Keosauqua, Iowa. Soon after this sad event in his life ill health
compelled him to resign the ministry till the spring of 1880, when he went
to Coral, Michigan, and resumed his clerical labors. After two years spent
in the work here and Otsego, Michigan, he came to Lake City in May, 1882,
and so acceptably supplied the pulpit of the Congregational church in this
city up till the winter of 1884 that he was unanimously called by his
congregation. His second marriage was on September 22, 1881, to Miss Kate
Gertrude Clarke, a daughter of Robert L. Clarke, Esq., private secretary
of Gov. Sherman, of Iowa. Mr. Horner has two children, Charles Sumner, by
his deceased wife, and Hazel May, by his present wife.

Lake City Congregational Church
War of Rebellion (Civil War)
Indian Wars