BIO:  David HORNER, M.D., Gettysburg, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Pages 356-357

DAVID HORNER, M.D., was born in Gettysburg, Adams County, Penn., November 10, 
1797.  He was the son of Robert and the grandson of David Horner, who immigrated 
to this country from Ireland prior to the year 1760.  Dr. David Horner received 
his classical education in the Latin school of Gettysburg, which was taught by 
Samuel Ramsey.  He read medicine in the office of Dr. James H. Miller, a 
cultivated and eminent physician of his day, and who subsequently became 
professor of the theory and practice of medicine in the Washington Medical 
College, at Baltimore, Md.  From this institution Dr. Horner received his degree 
of M.D.  As a physician he was faithful in the performance of his duty and was 
very successful.  On the 24th of December, 1822, he was united in marriage with 
Miss Agnes Brown Allen, of Savannah, Ga., by the Rev. David McConaughy.  In 
politics the Doctor was a firm Whig and a decided anti-slavery man.  In 1824 he 
was elected coroner of the county, to serve three years, and in 1842 was elected 
the second time to the same office.  In 1844 he was nominated as a Whig 
candidate for Congress in this district, then composed of the counties of York 
and Adams.  In this contest he was defeated by his Democratic opponent, Moses 
McClean, Esq., of Gettysburg, the latter having received a majority of 872 in 
York, and the former a Whig majority of 711 in Adams County.  The Doctor was 
elected in 1856 one of the associate judges of Adams County, a position he 
honorably and acceptably filled for two years.  On the 9th of February, 1858, he 
died in his sixty-first year, mourned and honored in the community in which he 
had lived for more than half a century.  His remains were interred in Evergreen 
Cemetery.  He left three children - two sons and one daughter.  The eldest son, 
Charles Horner, M.D., and the youngest, Robert Horner, M.D., are still living, 
and both are practicing medicine in Gettysburg, their native town.  Mary Agnes 
Horner married the Rev. John K. Plitt, a Lutheran minister, and at the present 
time resides in Philadelphia.