People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1893 — DEATH OF FRED HORN. [ARTICLE]

DEATH OF FRED HORN.

He Was the Oldest Senator in the Wisconsin Legislature. Milwaukee, Jan. 16.—State Senator Fred Horn, the oldest and most picturesque member of the Wisconsin legislature, qied at 10:15 Sunday morning at his home, in Cedarburg at the age ■of 77 years. Mr. Horn was a native of Germany, a classmate of Bismarck, and a resident of Wisconsin for fifty years. 'He had served in the Wisconsin legislature almost constantly for forty-five years, having been elected to the first state senate in 1848. His death resulted from heart failure.