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History of Pike and Dubois Counties, Indiana
David Wright Horton
David Wright Horton, and old and prominent resident of Petersburg is a native of New York. He was born July 10, 1826, and is the sixth in a family of eleven children. His parents were also natives of New York where the father James Horton died in 1849. The mother Elizabeth Wright came to Pike County in 1864, and lived with her son until her death in May 1868. David received a good practical education in youth, having sttended the high school at Port Byron, N.Y., and the Aurora Academy. At the age of fourteen he began to learn the shoe maker?s trade of his father. In December, 1851, he left his native State, and the following June, located at Petersburg where he has since resided and followed his trade the greater part of the time. In 1866, he went was appointed deputy county surveyor, and was afterward twice elected to the office of surveyor of Pike County. He still continues to do considerable surveying. he is the owner of 150 acres of land in Jefferson Township which he bought in 1869>Mr. Horton has been three times married. In February, 1854, he married Mary Bass who died eighteen months later, and in 1860 he was united in marriage with Katharine Bass, a sister of his first wife. She died in March, 1864. He chose for his third wife Elvina Scott whom he married in November, 1871. Mr. Horton was for many years an Odd Fellow, and took an active part in organizing the lodge in Petersburg.
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