A volume of memoirs and genealogy of representative citizens of the city of Seattle and county of King, Washington, including biographies of many of those who have passed away . People of the present period can scarcely realize the strugglesand dangers which attended the early settlers, the heroism and self-sacrifice of lives passed upon the borders of civilization, the hardshipsendured, the difficulties overcome. These tales of the early days read almostlike a romance to those who have known only the modern andconveniences. To the pioneer of the early days, far removed from thepri
A volume of memoirs and genealogy of representative citizens of the city of Seattle and county of King, Washington, including biographies of many of those who have passed away . People of the present period can scarcely realize the strugglesand dangers which attended the early settlers, the heroism and self-sacrifice of lives passed upon the borders of civilization, the hardshipsendured, the difficulties overcome. These tales of the early days read almostlike a romance to those who have known only the modern andconveniences. To the pioneer of the early days, far removed from theprivileges and conveniences of city or town, the struggle for existence wasa stern and hard one, and these men and women must have possessed indomit-able energies and sterling worth of character, as well as marked physicalcourage, when they thus voluntarily selected such a life and successfullyfought its battles under such circumstances as prevailed in the northwest. Mr. Horton was born in what is now Schuyler county. New York, nearthe head of Seneca Lake on the 15th of November, 1825, and is of Englishlineage, the family, however, having been established in New England at. ^^^-^f.^/L ^&T.^ V SEATTLE AND KING COUNTY. I73 a very early epoch in the history of that section. The paternal grand-father of our subject was a resident of Massachusetts, while his son, DariusHorton, the father of our subject, was born in Massachusetts January 23,1790. He removed to the Empire state and was married there to MissHannah Olmstead, whose birth occurred February 4, 1790. In 1840 DariusHorton removed with his family to De Kalb county, Illinois, his new homebeing seventy miles west of Chicago. There he entered land from the gov-ernment and transformed the wild prairie into a richly improved farm onwhich he resided until his death, which occurred in 1847, when he had at-tained the age of fifty-four years. He was a very industrious and thor-oughly honest man, a kind and obliging neighbor, and a devote
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