Horn, J. N.

HORN

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 10/1/2008 at 16:14:03

J. N. Horn

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.186, Neola Twp.)
J. N. Horn, farmer, P. O. Neola, was born May 12, 1849, in Garner Township, this county, son of John and Bebecca W. (Shuttle) Horn, natives of Dover, Kent, England. Subject's father was born in 1815, and came to the United States in 1874; settled in Garner Township, Pottawattamie Co., Iowa, in 1848. He is a carpenter by trade, but has been a farmer since his residence in this country. Subject's mother was born in 1815, and has borne eight children - three sons and five daughters; three of the latter are dead. Mr. Horn attended school till fourteen years of age, and worked on his father's farm till twenty-one, when he began working by the month in Hazel Dell Township. This he continued three years, and then, after renting land for three years, he moved to Neola Township in 1876, and bought the farm of 190 acres where he now lives. Mr. Horn was married, January 1, 1873, in Neola, to Mary Ann Spencer, born in Crescent Township, this county, October 6, 1855, daughter of Thomas and Selina (Charlesworth) Spencer, natives of England, both now living in this county, near our subject. Mr. and Mrs. Horn have had five children, two of whom are dead. The children are George Thomas, born January 26, 1874; Phillip Jesse, October 26, 1875, died December 7, 1876; James Albert, September 13, 1877, died February 15, 1879; John Robert, September 15, 1879; and Ida Belle, December 6, 1881. Mr. Horn was one of the first white children born in this county, and he has never been a mile beyond the county line. He is a Republican in politics.