Valentine B. Horton (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Valentine Baxter Horton (January 29, 1802 - January 14, 1888) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio during the first two years of the American Civil War. Born in Windsor, Vermont, Horton attended the Partridge Military School and afterward became one of its tutors. He studied law in Middletown, Connecticut, and was admitted to the bar in 1830. He moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he practiced. He then moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1833, and on to Pomeroy, Ohio, in 1835. He engaged in the sale and transportation of coal and the development of the salt industry. He served as member of the State constitutional convention in 1860.