DANIEL HORTON, book-keeper and clerk in the mercantile house of T. C. Gardener at Remus, was born in Tioga Co., Penn., July 5, 1850, and is a son of Seneca and Catherine (Buckbee) Horton, the father a native of Ohio, and the mother of New York. The family came to Michigan in 1864 and settled in Wheatland Tp. Mr. Horton passed the first 20 years of his life the method of farmers' sons generally, and was married Feb. 4, 1870, to Mary, daughter of Ezra and Jane (Brown) Mansfield, who was born Feb. 18, 1854, in Genesee Co., N.Y., of which State her parents were natives. She accompanied them to Michigan when quite young. Mr. and Mrs. Horton settled on a farm of 40 acres on sec. 25, Wheatland Tp. On this Mr. Horton labored until he had put 20 acres in a fit condition for cultivation. He operated as an agriculturalist some years, eventually leaving his farm to engage in the general store of his brother at Millbrook, where he remained until February, 1881, the date of his entering upon his present duties in the establishment of Mr. Gardener. He has the entire management of the business at Remus, and enjoys the unrestricted confidence of his principal, who is a non-resident, he having during the current year (1883) fixed his dwelling place at Big Rapids. Mr. Horton is a Republican in politics, and has been for some time Township Clerk.
Mr. and Mrs. Horton have had four children, viz: Orville E., born June 15, 1871; Fred E., Sept. 21, 1874; Effie J., Oct. 1, 1876 (died Nov. 4, 1887); Carrie M., Oct. 15, 1882.
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