Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1908 — DEATH OF WILLIAM HORN. [ARTICLE]

DEATH OF WILLIAM HORN.

Prominent Business Man Who Setled in Lafayette in 1853. Lafayette, Ind., Nov. 24. —William Horn, Sr., one of Lafayette’s leading and most successful commercial men, died yesterday afternoon of general debility. For more than half a century he had been in (he front rank of business men. He was president of the Lafayette Telephone Company, one of the largest independent systems in the State, a director of the Merchants’ National Bank, and the Lafayette Savings Bank. Mr. Horn was one of the pioneers of Lafayette’s commercial world. He was born in 1831 In Northhampton county, Pennsylvania, and came west in 1853. He settled here in the same year and engaged in the packing business, in which he spent most of his life. For a number of years Mr. Horn was at the head of a flour milling company. He retired five years ago from active business. He was a lifelong Republican and a member of the First Presbyterian church. Mr. Horn had been seriously ill for several months. Two sons, William L. Horn, of Indianapolis, and Dr. George F. Horn, of Haverhill, Mass., and two daughters, Mrs. Frank Gardner, of Moline, 111., and Miss Flora Horn, of this city, survive.