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SHERIFFS OF MONTCALM COUNTY
1850 to 2006


IRA C. HORTON
Sheriff from 1869-1872


Ira C. Horton was born about 1834 in New York and married the former Jane H. Tongue in Livingston County, MI on November 25, 1857. Jane apparently died and he remarried Amelia (surname unknown). Amelia and Ira settled in Stanton sometime before 1867. Ira was a member of the board of supervisors for Montcalm County and his name appears with the others on a petition asking the State Legislature to incorporate Stanton as a village. That petition was signed October 16, 1867. He was elected sheriff on November 7, 1868 and served from 1869-1872. On January 15, 1869 he joined the Stanton Star Lodge No 250, F &AM. Amelia Horton died at the age of 31 in Sidney Township on December 25, 1872. He left the Stanton area some time later and eventually married Ella Luce in Jackson County, MI on June 8, 1875. Ira was the father of three sons - Martin, Manning S. and Harry I. By 1880 Ira, Ella, Martin and Manning had settled in the Dakota Territory, Turner County, Township 96 Range 53 where he engaged in farming. His youngest son had gone back to Livingston County to live with an aunt and uncle. Ira died sometime before 1900, possibly in Iowa. His wife and sons Manning and Harry were living in Sioux City, Woodbury County, Iowa in 1900.

(Sources: History of Ionia and Montcalm Counties by John S. Schenck; Livingston and Jackson County Marriage records; census records)



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