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From History of North Washington, published 1903, now in public domain. 
Submitted by Candy L. Grubb March 27, 1997. Both above notices must remain 
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JOSEPH N. HORTON

	Joseph N. Horton, better known as Dr. Horton, is one of the
prominent and leading citizens of Stevens county.  He divides his time
between several occupations and has made a good success in each.  When 
a young man, Dr. Horton determined to take up the study of medicine and
accordingly began reading under the direction of physicians, and also 
spent considerable time in learning pharmacy.  He has continued more or 
less in reading since and has become very well read in medical lore.
However, the doctor never took a diploma from a medical college and is 
therefore not allowed a state license; notwithstanding this fact, he has
been sought after by a great many and has done worlds of good in Stevens
county.
	Dr. Horton resides about five miles east of Daisy, where he has
a farm of one hundred and sixty acres.  He has a good residence, plenty
of buildings, fences, and so forth on the farm which is laid under
tribute to produce the various crops and fruits indigenous to this 
section.  In addition to this, Dr. Horton has close by him valuable
mining interests.  He owns one-third interest in the Tempest Mining and
Milling Company, being general manager and vice president of the same.
They have a twelve foot ledge which runs very high in silver, and had
been developed by a fifty foot shaft and eleven hundred feet of tunneling.
Spokane capitalists are interested with the doctor in this property
and it is expected soon to become one of the good paying properties of
the county.
	Joseph N. Horton, was born on September 13, 1854, in Miami 
county, Indiana, being the son of Thomas G. and Harriett (Fennimore)
Horton, natives of Indiana and Ohio, respectively.  The father was 
born in 1826, and is now living on the old homestead, aged seventy 
seven years.  Our subject's paternal grandfather was one of the earliest
pioneers in Indiana and died in 1892, aged ninety-six.  The mother of
Joseph N. died in 1873.  Her father was in the early Indian struggles
and the Mexican War, and also served in the Civil War although he was
aged sixty-five.  Doctor Horton has three brothers and one sister,
William F., Charles G., Addison E., Mrs. Julia E. Alspach.  In his
native place, our subject was educated and grew to manhood's estate
and in 1876 went to Sumner City, Sumner county, Kansas.  Two years
later he went to Texas where he engaged in shoeing horses for a stage
line, having learned the blacksmith's trade in his youth.  In 1880 he
went to Mexico and traveled something over thirteen hundred miles in a
trip in that Republic.  After this he was engaged in various sections of 
Old Mexico and western United States and endured many hardships in 
passing through a country of hostile Indians.  In 1884 he came to 
Spokane prospecting and was also engaged at the Old Dominion in Stevens
county.  In 1888 he loaded his earthly possessions on a pack horse
and wended his way into the Columbia valley where he soon located a 
mining property in which he is now interested.  In 1893 he located his
farm and since then has made this his home.
	On June 8, 1894, Dr. Horton married Miss Alice M. Bradley, who
was born in Minnesota, on February 11, 1876.  Her father, John S. Bradley,
was a minister in the Free Methodist church, came west in 1890, and is
now living near Daisy.  Her mother is Julia A. Bradley.  Mrs. Horton
has the following named brothers and sisters:  Mrs. Dana Foster, John E.,
Mrs. Ruth Bohren, Thomas E., Bertha E., and Bernice M.
	Dr. and Mrs. Horton have always labored for the moral and
educational upbuilding and the general welfare of the community.  The
doctor has served as justice of the peace and has always been one of 
the leading men of this section.  Two children have been born to Dr. 
and Mrs. Horton, Beryl M., and Marion J.