History of Brookfield, (Madison County) New York United States of America

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Albert Howell Horton, jurist, was born near Brookfield, N.Y., March 12, 1837; son of Dr. Harvey A. and Mary (Bennett) Horton, and a descendant of Barnabas Horton, of Mously, Leicestershire, England, who immigrated to America before 1638 and settled first in Hampton, Mass., then, in 1640, in New Haven, Conn., and finally in Southold, L.I. He was prepared for college in the academy at Goshen, N.Y., and matriculated at the University of Michigan in 1856, leaving in 1858 to study law. He was admitted to practice in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1860, and settled in Atchison, Kansas. He was city attorney of Atchison in April, 1861, and was appointed in September district judge of the second judicial district of Kansas by Governor Charles Robinson, and was elected in November, 1861, and re-elected in 1865. He edited the Weekly Champion with John James Ingalls in Atchinson, 1861-64; was a Republican presidential elector in 1868, and was appointed U.S. attorney for Kansas by President Grant in May, 1869. He represented the city of Atchison in the state legislature in 1872, and Atchison county in the state senate in 1876, resigning Jan. 1, 1877, upon being appointed chief justice of the supreme court of Kansas by Governor Osborn to fill out an unexpired term. He was re-elected in 1878, 1884 and 1890. He resigned in 1895 and settled in the practice of law with the firm of Waggener, Horton & Orr, at Topeka, Kan. The University of Michigan conferred upon him the honorary degree of LL.D. in 1889. He died in Topeka, Kan., Sept. 2, 1902.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Brookfield, (Madison County) New York

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