Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations . ce for fif-teen years. He was elected a Member of the House of Representatives of the General Assembly in1872-73. He has been Grand Master of the Inde-pendent Order of Odd Fellows of Rhode Island,and is a member of the Grand Lodge and GrandChapter A. F. & A. M. of Rhode Island. He wasMedical Director of the Department of RhodeIsland G. A. R. for three years. He is a memberof the Massachusetts Commandery of Loyal 1894 he was assist
Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations . ce for fif-teen years. He was elected a Member of the House of Representatives of the General Assembly in1872-73. He has been Grand Master of the Inde-pendent Order of Odd Fellows of Rhode Island,and is a member of the Grand Lodge and GrandChapter A. F. & A. M. of Rhode Island. He wasMedical Director of the Department of RhodeIsland G. A. R. for three years. He is a memberof the Massachusetts Commandery of Loyal 1894 he was assistant surgeon-general of RhodeIsland Militia, with the rank of is a member of the Society of the Sons of theAmerican Revolution, and of the Rhode IslandMedical Society. In politics he is a Republican. HORTON, Horace , real estate , was born in Rehoboth, Mass., Janu-ary 2, 1838, son of Ellis and Mary EHza (Craw)Horton. He received his early education in thepublic schools and at Schofields Commercial Col-lege, Providence. He first engaged in the grocerybusiness in co-partnership with Major E. S. Horton,. HORACE F, HORTON. from 1859 to 1861, and from 1864 to 1872 withHenry J. Anthony. From 1872 to the present timehe has been engaged in the real estate, mortgageand insurance business, giving special attention tothe development of land in the vicinity of Provi- MEN OF PROGRESS. 39 dence. He has taken an active part in the rehgiouswork of the Baptist society, and has been for twen-ty-three years Superintendent of the Sunday Schoolof the Jefferson Street Church. He was Presidentof the Rhode Island Baptist Sunday School Con-vention in 1878 and 1879, and was President of theRhode Island Baptist Social Union in 1893. He isa director in the executive board of the RhodeIsland Baptist State Convention. He married, Jan-uary 15, 1862, Miss Susan M. Anthony; they havesix children : Henry F., Annie M., Clarence H., FredE., Marion L. and Laura E. Hort
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