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HORTON, Valentine Baxter, manufacturer, born in Windsor, Vermont, 29 January, 1802. He was educated at Partridge's military academy at Norwich, Vermont, and on the removal of that institution to Middletown, Connecticut, accompanied it as a teacher. He studied law at Middletown, was admitted to the bar in 1830, and began practice at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania In 1833 he removed to Cincinnati, and in 1835 to Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio, where he became engaged in mining and manufacturing. He was a delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1850, and was then elected a representative in congress as a Republican, serving from 3 December, 1855, till 3 March, 1859, and declining a renomination. He was a member of the peace congress of 1861, and was again elected to congress, serving from 4 July, 1861, till 3 March, 1863. He has been a member of the board of trustees of Ohio university during the last forty years, and has been five times a member of the general convention of the Protestant Episcopal church of the United States.
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