. History of Ingham and Eaton counties, Michigan . ed, in which their meetings are regularly held. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES ALBERT T. HORTON. Among the many biographies that we append to thehistory of this county and its townships, no subject is moreworthy than the one whose name heads this sketch. He isin the truest sense self-made. Coming to the State in anearly day when to exist required a struggle, his onlycapital energy, willingness, and strength, he has indeedachieved success, and is to-day enjoying the reward of anindustrious, well-spent life. He was born in Lake Co., Ohio, July 21,1828, t
. History of Ingham and Eaton counties, Michigan . ed, in which their meetings are regularly held. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES ALBERT T. HORTON. Among the many biographies that we append to thehistory of this county and its townships, no subject is moreworthy than the one whose name heads this sketch. He isin the truest sense self-made. Coming to the State in anearly day when to exist required a struggle, his onlycapital energy, willingness, and strength, he has indeedachieved success, and is to-day enjoying the reward of anindustrious, well-spent life. He was born in Lake Co., Ohio, July 21,1828, the secondin a family of four children. His father, Franklin S. Horton,was a native of Connecticut, and a blacksmith by mother was Betsy (Tucker) Horton, a native of thesame State, whore thoy were married, and started for Ohiothe next day on their wedding-tour with a team and coveredwagon in company with his brother and others, who hadlocated land on the Western Reserve, locating in LakeCounty, where he followed farming combined with the. fiESiDENCEOF ALBERTT. HOHTON, Leroy Tp. Ingham Co. Michigan. LEROY. 257 manufacture of liaj-forks, scythes, and carriage-springs,up to the time of his deatli. Tlic mother is still livingin the old homestead. After the death of her husband,she rented her farm and kept her family together, teach-ing them by her example industry, economy, and them and the success of her precepts, she never hadcause to complain, as they have all become prosperous andrespected citizens. Albert, at the age of fourteen, in com-pany with his younger brother, took the farm under bissupervision, remaining at home until he was twenty-four,when he hired out by the month to a man who had pre-viously worked for him. June 25, 1852, he married MissMaria L. Bennett, who was born in Ohio Nov. 13, 1832,and the fifth representative of a family of eight, all parents were both Vermonters, passing the early partof their married life there, afterwar
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