The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1895-01-09
OBITUARY.


HOrr, on the morning Of December 81,
1894, Wellington lost another Of her most
prominent citizens. Early in June Last
Mr.. Horr's physicians told him they
greatly feared he was threatened with
Bright's disease and advised him to at
once try and correct the trouble. He i'm
mediately went to the mineral springs at
Canlbridgeborro, Penn, and underwent
most thorough treatment He failed
however to receive benefit from the
waters or from the advice Of physicians
in Philadelphia and New York and re-
turned to his home in July with health
much impaired. During his long sick-
ness every point in medical science was
exhausted, yet from the Goth of July,
when he was taken with slight apo
plectic seizure, until the day and hour
of his death, it was apparent to those
who watched by him that he could not
recover.
Rollin A. Horr was born in Waitsfeld,
VT, November 26, 1880, and with his
parents came to Avon, o., in 1884. His
boyhOod days were spent there and in
1849 he moved to Huntington. Here the
young man soon went to the front as an
energetic, pushing business man. He
lived in that quiet little farming COM
munity until 1864 when he came tOWell-
ingtOn and established the First National
Bank, in which institution he remained
as cashier, yice-president or director un-
til his death.
On June 13, 1858, he was married to
Sarah A. Ames, Of Huntington. To this
most happy union seven children were
born, six of whom, grown to manhood
and womanhOOd, survive the deceased.
Mr.. Horr was for sixty years resident
Of Lorain county and for thirty years one
ofthe most active republicans of northern
Ohio. In 1879 he was elected to the
state senate and upon his reelection to
thu body two years tatel was made
president pro tenn. for the session 1928
and in the fall Of 1882 was the republic
an candidate for congress in the Four
teenth Ohio district.
In 1841, when scarcely ten years Of age,
he and his twin brother, Hon. r. G.. Horr,
Of New York, were left the oldest Of
eight fatherless boys. The struggles and
hardships of bOyhOod and early manhood
early taught them the lesson that adver-
sity always teaches, and gave to them a
training that better fitted them to solve
the problems Of life.
The active energetic, stirring, business
and political career Of Mr.. Horr is
familiar to the residents Of dozen
counties in northern Ohio. No man out.
side the professions was more often con.
suited by all classes; no mans advice
more safe to follow. By him all people
in the varied circles Of his acquaintance
were treated alike, so long as they were
known to be upright and honorable, anG
his whole pathway through life was
marked with many and many gOot
action prompted bp heart big enough
guided by a mind broad enough, and
carried out by hand generous enough Il
make his intimate friends love him, hi
acquaintances respect him, the dishOnes
man fear him and the unfortunate ont
bless him.
All through the seven long months
that loving hands ministered to hi
wants, his true, manly, unselfsh, patien
character showed more strongly thar
ever, that here was man who lived fol
others rather than for himself. Ye
through it all was that determination t,
live which made his fight against tn
, grim destroyer one to the death indeed
Reverses had come to him in busines
and in politics, but never in his home Iif
[ and his associations with his fellows
His fine, sensitive nature was not cal
culated to successfully buffet th
severe storms Of life unless the hom
circle was threatened with sickness o
death,unless some friend was in danger
unless honorable and upright manhOO
was imperiled; then he was ever tn
comforter and always the faithful frien,
; and adviser.
+; He leaves behind him a loving an
sOrrowing wife, who can look back owe
the fOrtyone mile stones that mark thei
welded life and count with each one al
added joy, throughout generation 0
happy cOmpanionship. He leaves lovin
and sOrrOwing children of two genera
tions who will forever miss the guidin
hand Of a most kind and indulgen
father. He leaves hosts Of friends VIII
will miss his genial greeting, his heart
handshake, his warm fellowship, and hi
(. wise counsel.
r. A. HOrr had been all his life a ma
among men, showing to best adyantag
when working for friend, rather tina
! ! for himself. There was all through hi
: life that happy nature, a foe to Jealousy
that enabled him to easily rejoice in I'll