Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations . 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 Jeffers
Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations . 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. Horton. HOWARD, Hiram, manufacturer of silverware,was born in West Woodstock, Windham wholesale jewelry business until the breaking outof the war in 1861. September 18, 1861, he enlistedin the Second Regiment of Artillery, New YorkVolunteers, serving at first as Second Lieutenant,and afterward as First Lieutenant and remained in the army until July 1864, nearlythree years, when he returned to New York, andagain engaged in the jewelry business. In 1881he returned to Providence and embarked in themanufacture of jewelry, which he conducted suc-cessfully for several years, and then engaged in themanufacture of sterling silverware. At the presenttime he is president of the Howard Sterling Silver-ware Company, Providence, his son Stephen associated with him in the management. Hehas taken an active interest in public affairsand in the social and economic questions of the May 1877 the New York Free Trade Club wasformed and he became a member in July of thesam
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