Hancock County OhArchives Biographies.....Van Horn, Smith 1826 - 
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Author: Warner & Beers (1886)

   SMITH VAN HORN, farmer, P. 0. Mount Blanchard, born August 26, 1826, in Bucks
County, Penn., is a son of Samuel T. and Phebe (Twining) Van Horn, natives of
Pennsylvania. Samuel T. Van Horn came to Ohio in 1834. He was twice married. His
first wife, nee Phebe Twining, bore him five children: Jacob (deceased),
Charles, Isaac, Sarah (wife of William Richardson, of St. Joseph County, Ind.),
and Smith, our subject. His second wife was Mrs. Sarah Delph, a widow, and by
her he had two children: Mary J. (wife of Alfred C. Russell, in Michigan), and
John, in Jackson County, Oreg. Samuel T. Van Horn resided one year in Monroe
County, and then moved to Big Spring Township, this county, where he passed the
remainder of his days. Smith Van Horn received his education in the county
schools, and became an efficient teacher. Of twenty years of his early life, the
first ten were spent in teaching during winters and farming during summer, and
occasionally going to school a term either in fall or spring. The last ten were
devoted to teaching and superintending union schools during the entire school
year. Was once offered the mathematical chair of the Moore's Hill College,
Indiana. He married, November 22. 1857, Martha E. Wiseman, and to this union
four children have been born: Alma, wife of William Watermire; Flora, Minnie M.
and Bessie. In 1869 Mr. Van Horn purchased from his father-in-law a fine farm of
112 acres of land. He is a Republican in politics; has held the office of school
director twelve years; was a member of the township school board most of that
time, and is an attendant of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He acquired his
education and property by his own exertions, and has been successful. His
library is one of the finest in Amanda Township.

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Book Title: History Of Hancock County
Amanda Township

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