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THOMAS N. HORN

Thomas N. Horn, manufacturer of wagons and plows, and general blacksmith, of Fredericktown, Mo., a native of Farmington, Mo., was born February 28, 1846, and is the son of William and Louisa (Cleveland) Horn, and grandson of Thomas N. Horn, who was born in Virginia, but moved to Tennessee, and in 1860 settled in Ste. Genevieve County, Mo., and afterward in St. Francois County, two and a half miles northeast of Farmington. He was a soldier in the War of 1812 and died in 1864. William Horn was born in Davidson County, Tenn., in 1815 and at the age of thirteen, came with his father to Missouri, and settled in Ste. Genevieve County, where he was married. About 1845 he moved to St. Francois County and settled three and a half miles northeast of the county seat. His wife was born in Louisville, Ky., in 1816, and died in 1859. Her father Robert Cleveland, was a native of Virginia, and moved to Ste. Genevieve County about 1830. He was a captain in the War of 1812. Mrs. Horn was the mother of seven children - six sons and one daughter - five of whom are living at the present. Thomas N. was the third child born to his parents. He was reared in the farm and received a fair education in the common schools. At the age of nineteen he commenced learning his trade, and learned blacksmithing of his uncle, Dudley Horn, at Libertyville, plow manufacturing of E. L. Beard if Ste. Genevieve County and learned the wagon and buggy trade in Neosho, Newton Co., Mo., serving and apprenticeship of four years. In 1870 he bought his uncle out at Libertyville and began business upon his own responsibility. In 1872 he sold out and located at Mine La Motte, Madison County, where in 1882 he again sold out, this time to his brothers, H. C. and F. M. Horn. He then came to Fredericktown, Mo., and erected a shop and has continued his business up to the present. Mr. Horn manufactures on an average forty wagons and forty plows per annum. He also does a large amount of first-class repairing. He is a skillful workman, and his work gives universal satisfaction. April 26, 1870, he married Miss Mary Heberlie, a native of Ste. Genevieve County, Mo., born October 14, 1849, and the daughter of Nicholas Heberlie. Two children were the fruits of this union: Harry and William. Mr. Horn is a Democrat in his political views and is a member of the I.O.O.F. encampment and subordinate lodge.