History of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade and Barton Counties, MO
Dr. Samuel W. Horn

History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, 
Missouri, published by Goodspeed, 1889;  Pgs. 742, 743 
Cedar County Section

Dr. Samuel W. Horn, the oldest physician and surgeon of Cedar 
County, Mo., was born in the State of Georgia, near Augusta, in 
1811.  His father, Dr. John Horn, was a Virginian, born in 1778, 
and was a medical graduate and soldier in the War of 1812.  At 
Norfolk, in 1814, he was thrown from his horse and died the 
following day.  His wife, whose maiden name was Charity Brown, 
was born in Georgia, and died in 1836, at the age of forty-five 
years, in Smith County, Tenn.  Her two children are living: 
Dr. Samuel W. and Miranda, wife of Allan Horn, of Greene County, Ark.  
The former was three years of age when his father died, but he 
continued to make his home with his mother, and went with her and 
his step-father, Henry McMullen, to Tennessee.  He was reared to 
manhood on a farm in Smith County, and in 1829 began teaching 
school, continuing this occupation for four terms in Mount Holly 
Academy, and at the same time pursued his medical studies, using 
his father's books, which his mother had preserved.  He also 
studied under the direction of Drs. Ben R. Owen and John Daugherty, 
and in 1833 entered the Medical College of Louisville, Ky., from 
which institution he graduated in May, 1834.  He began practicing 
at Lancaster, and in May, 1835, married Miss Margaret Tyree, who 
was born in Smith County, Tenn., in 1822.  Of their ten children 
seven reached maturity: Mary, who died in 1863, at the age of 
twenty-five years, was the wife of William Cawthorn; William J., 
Francis H.; Samuel W., Jr., who died in 1870, aged twenty-two 
years; Martha L. J., wife of Joseph C. Ledbetter; Alexander M.; 
and Miranda C., wife of William C. Preston.  In 1843, Dr. Horn 
left Tennessee and went to Mississippi, and in February, 1844,
landed at what is now Cedar County, Mo., and located on the farm 
where Thomas Hackleman now resides, where he entered upon the 
practice of his profession, there being only three other doctors 
besides himself in the county, and he is the only one now living.  
He devoted his time to his profession until June, 1882, and since 
that time has lived a quiet, retired life.  He had only been in the 
county a short time when his worth and merit as a physician became 
known, and for over twenty years he had the most extensive practice 
of any doctor in the county, and very often was called a distance 
of forty miles from his home to attend the sick.  Many a time he 
has been on horseback a week at a time, with but little rest, and 
often fell asleep on his horse, and one time was knocked from is 
saddle by the branch of a tree.  Another time his horse stopped, 
and he slept for several hours before waking.  During all his years 
of residence in Cedar County, his good name has remained untarnished.  
He is known the county over as "Uncle Sammy," and is reverenced by 
all who know him.  Previous to the late war he was a Whig in politics, 
and voted for Henry Clay for the presidency in 1832; since that time 
he has been a Democrat, but during the War was a strong Union man.  
In 1850 he took the first census in Cedar County, and was one of the 
original stockholders of the Bank of Exchange of Stockton.  He has 
been a member of the Masonic Order for forty-four years.  In 1885 he 
lost his estimable wife, and since that time his youngest son has 
been living with him. He has given each of his children $2,200, and 
has always been very liberal in contributing to worthy enterprises.  
On coming to the county he had not a relation, but now, besides his 
own children, he has thirty-nine grandchildren and sixteen 
great-grandchildren.  He has been very successful financially, and 
is one of the well-to-do men of the county.
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