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Benjamin Jason Horton (Hamilton County, Ohio, attorney, soldier, and court clerk.)

b. 1831-02-13 d. 1916-01-14

Hamilton County, Ohio, attorney, soldier, and court clerk. New York City. native. Son of Nicholas Townsend Horton and Sarah Van Orden Horton. Married to Sarah Virginia Yeatman Horton in Hamilton County, Ohio, on April 18, 1858. Father of W. Y. Horton, Eva A. Horton, and Alice T. Horton. Resident of Cincinnati in 1832. Attended school in Cincinnati in 1850. Graduated from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1852. Admitted to the bar in 1854. Attorney in Hamilton County, Ohio, in 1860. Employed Rebecca Dickson as a servant in Hamilton County in 1860. Served in the 24th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a first lieutenant and captain from December 20, 1861, to June 10, 1863. Wounded at the Battle of Stones River, Rutherford County, Tennessee in January 1863. Clerk of the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas in 1865.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Ohio, Hamilton County, Cincinnati Ward 11, p. 261B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Ohio, Hamilton County, Millcreek Township, p. 49.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kansas, Douglas County, Lawrence Ward 1, pp. 299A-B.

Ohio Marriage Records, 1774-1993, Hamilton County Marriages, Film 000344472.

"Judge Horton Has Passed Away," Lawrence Daily Journal World (Lawrence, KS), January 15, 1916.

Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866, vol. III (Cincinnati: The Ohio Valley Publishing and Manufacturing Company, 1886), 161.

"Supplies at Nashville," The Cincinnati Daily Enquirer (Cincinnati, OH), January 25, 1863, p. 3.

Horton Genealogy; or, Chronicles of the Descendants of Barnabas Horton, of Southold, L. I., 1640 (Philadelphia: Home Circle Publishing, 1876), 154-5.

KYR-0001-006-0054.

Citation

Horton, Benjamin Jason. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32205663 (November 12, 2026).

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