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SHORT SKETCH OF
JNO. A. HORTON
(Tha Pickens Sentinel, }

zine PlckenS Sentlnel.)
John A. Horton, of Bolton, now q
candidate for Congress from this dis
trict, was born forty-one years ago
on farm near Meals Creek church
in Anderson county, When he was
old enough he worked on the farm in
summer and went to school after
crops were laid by, and in this way
prepared himself for college. He
worked his way through school,
teaching during vacation, and gradu-
ated from the Patrick Military In
stitute in Anderson. In this institu-
ton under the instruction of Col. J.
B. Patrick, the great and good Chris
tian teacher, young Horton had the
principles of honesty, honor and
duty in all things deeply impressed
upon him. These principles had been
taught him by Christian parents in
the home. Now they were more per-
manently fixed in the very founda-
ton of his character and when Hor-
ton left the school he went into the
school room as a teacher and into the
store room as a salesman and later
into the mercantile business with his
father at Belton. The principles of
honesty, honor and duty guided him
in buying and selling goods and he
succeeded.
When the Farmers Bank was Or
ganized at Belton in 1903, Mr.. Hor-
ton was elected cashier and so faith
fully did he discharge his duties and
prove his ability to manage the busi-
ness of the bank that he was promot-
ed from cashier to president in 1908,
and under his management the bank
has done well and has accommodated
many farmers in the community, as
we'll as others. People who have
dealt with his bank will tell you that
they have had square deal.
When the subject of this sketch
was quite boy it was my pleasure
to receive him into the fellowship of
Meals Creek church, and I am glad
to hear that he has been a consistent
member and active worker in the
church and Sunday school.
While every man ought to and
must stand on his own merits, yet it
is not against man to have good
and honorable kin people. So in the
case of John A. Horton, he has good
people on his fathers and mothers
side. His father and grandfather
were successful farmers. He has
two uncles who are honored and sue
cessful lawyers in Atlanta, Ca, and
his brothers are successful business
men. He is closely related to the
Majors and Longs, successful far
mers and business men of Anderson
county. His wife was Miss Tate,
of Ebert county, Ca, closely relat-
ed to our popular fellow citizen, E.
w. Tate, of Norris. DR.. VIM. A.
Long of Liberty, married sister of
Mr.. Horton.
Should Horton be elected to Con-
gress he would fill the seat of one of
our most honored and lamented rep
resentatives, who was a kinsman of
his by marriage. I refer to the Ia
mented Asbury G. Latimer, who was,
perhaps, one of the most popular men
among the masses of this district.
Horizons friends do not claim for
him the gift of great oratory, but
they do claim for him honor, integri-
ty, fidelity to duty, that he is busi-
ness man of fine ability, a man from
the people, of the. people and for the
people; man who has worked him
self up and who knows the needs of |
the people. He pledges himself, if |
elected, to do his best for all the |
people as God shall give him light to |
see his duty and grace and strength |
to discharge the same.-Adv.