Samuel Dana HORTON

Background

Horton, Samuel Dana was born on January 16, 1844 in Pomeroy, Ohio, United States. Son of Valentine B. and Clara Alsop (Pomeroy) Horton.

Education

He graduated at Harvard in 1864, and at the Harvard Law School in 1868, studied Roman law in Berlin in 1869, and in 1871 was admitted to the Ohio Barometer

Career

He practised law in Cincinnati, and then in Pomeroy until 1885, when he gave up law for the advancement of bimetallism. His attention had been turned to monetary questions by the greenback campaign of 1873 in Ohio, in which, as in former campaigns, he had spoken, particularly effectively in German, for the Republican party. He was secretary of the American delegation to the Monetary Conference which met in Paris in 1878, and edited the report of the delegation.

To the conference of 1881 he was a delegate, and thereafter he spent much of his time in Europe, whither he was sent by President Harrison in 1889 as special commissioner to promote the international restoration of silver.

He died in Washington, District of Columbia. Horton"s principal works were The Silver Pound (1887) and Silver in Europe (1890), a volume of essays.

Achievements

• Samuel Dana Horton has been listed as a noteworthy economist by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Silver and Gold: And Their Relation to the Problem of Resumption (Classic Reprint)

    (Excerpt from Silver and Gold: And Their Relation to the P...)

  • Silver and Gold and their Relation to the Problem of Resumption - Scholar's Choice Edition

    ( This work has been selected by scholars as being cultur...)

  • Silver In Europe

    (This book an EXACT reproduction of the original book publ...)

  • Silver and Gold and their Relation to the Problem of Resumption

    (This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curat...)

  • Silver in Europe 1892

    (Originally published in 1892. This volume from the Cornel...)

  • Silver and Gold and Their Relation to the Problem of Resumption 1876 Hardcover

    (Lang:- eng, Pages 206. Reprinted in 2015 with the help of...)

  • ***RE-PRINT*** Silver and gold and their relation to the problem of resumption

Connections

Married Blanche Lydiard, August 28, 1877, 1 child Lydiard.

Father:

Valentine B. Horton

Mother:

Clara Alsop (Pomeroy) Horton

Spouse:

Blanche Lydiard

child:

Lydiard Horton