History of Pomeroy, (Meigs County) Ohio United States of America

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Samuel Dana Horton, publicist, was born in Pomeroy, Obio, Jan. 16, 1844; son of the Hon. Valentine Baxter and Clara Alsop (Pomeroy) Horton. He was prepared for college in Pomeroy and at a classical school in Cincinnati, and was graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1864, A.M., 1867. Immediately after graduation he visited the Azores, and went thence to Europe, returning to Pomeroy in 1865. He devoted himself to the study of the languages and history, and wrote the Bowdoin prize essay in 1865. In 1866 he entered Harvard Law school and was graduated LL.B. in 1868. He spent 1868-69 in European travel and as a student of jurisprudence at the University of Berlin. He returned home in 1870, was admitted to the bar, Jan. 1, 1871, and practised law in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1871-74, and in Pomeroy, 1874-95. During the campaign of 1870 he made speeches in German in Ohio and West Virginia. He made a special study of monetary science and became recognized as an authority on that subject. He advocated the settlement of the question of ratio between gold and silver by the joint action of nations, and visited the various European capitals, where he advanced the plan. In 1876 bis treatise on "Silver and Gold and their Relations to the Problem of Resumption" was the first of a series of publications that led to the adoption of the policy by congress. He was secretary of the international monetary congress held in connection with the Paris exposition in 1878, and with William M. Evarts, Allen G. Thurman and Timothy O. Howe, was a delegate to the International Monetary conference called jointly by the governments of the republics of France and the United States to meet in Paris, April 19, 1881, at which fourteen governments were represented. He was married at Lausanne, Switzerland, Aug. 28, 1877, to Blanche Hariot, daughter of William and Vittoria (White) Lydiard. He was a member of the Cincinnati Literary club, the Central Republican association of Hamilton county, the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio, and vice-president of the Cincinnati Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. His published works include: Silver and Gold, and their Relation to the Problem of Resumption (1876); Monetary Malaria: or, The Health of Nations (1877); Silver: An Issue of International Politics (1886); The Silver Pound and England's Monetary Policy Since the Restoration; together with the History of the Guinea, Illustrated by Contemporary Documents (London, 1887); Silver in Europe (1890; enl. ed., 1892), and many magazine articles. He died in Washington, D.C., Feb. 23, 1895.

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

History of Pomeroy, (Meigs County) Ohio

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