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A Standard History of Starke County, Indiana
McCormick, Joseph N. - 1915

     [253-254]

        JOHN W. HORNER. One of the native sons of Starke County who has
     realized that within its borders are offered opportunities for suc-
     cessful enterprise along many lines of legitimate business is the
     well-known and popular citizen whose name initiates this paragraph and
     who is established in the hardware and implement business at Knox,
     the county seat. He is one of the progressive and representative busi-
     ness men of this thriving little city and that he has not been denied
     the fullest measure of popular confidence and esteem is indicated by
     the fact that he has served as trustee of Center Township and that
     his circle of friends is limited only by that of his acquaintances.

        MR. HORNER was born on the old family homestead farm, in Washing-
     ton Township, this county, and the date of his nativity was May 27,
     1870. He is a son of AMOS and ELIZA HORNER, both natives of Pennsyl-
     vania and scions of fine old Pennsylvania German stock. The marriage
     of the parents was solemnized near Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and short-
     ly after this important event in their lives they came to Starke
     County, Indiana, where AMOS HORNER purchased a tract of land in Wash-
     ington Township. He reclaimed this wild land to cultivation and con-
     tinued to be numbered among the substantial farmers of the county
     until his death, in 1876, at which time he was in the very prime of
     his sterling manhood. His widow later became the wife of ORRIN HUM-
     PHREYS, who likewise is deceased, and MRS. HUMPHREYS, now sixty-one
     years of age, resides in Knox, where she has the supervision of the
     pleasant home provided by her bachelor son, JOHN W., of this review,
     who finds the domestic relations most grateful and who accords to his
     mother the utmost filial solicitude. Both mother and son are members
     of the Christian Church. No children were born of the second mar-
     riage and JOHN W. HORNER is the youngest of the three children of the
     first marriage. ELMER, who likewise maintains his home at Knox, mar-
     ried Miss IDA COOPER and they have three children, GRACE, IRVIN and
     RUTH; CATHERINE is the wife of DANIEL S. NAVE, of Knox; they have no
     children.

        The public schools of Starke County afforded to JOHN W. HORNER
     his early educational advantages and he continued to be a successful
     exponent of the agricultural industry in Center Township until 1908,
     when he removed to Knox and became associated with HUGH KREUTER in the
     hardware and farming implement business. They purchased the stock and
     business of the firm of Bacon & Son, the enterprise having been found-
     ed in 1898 by J. A. BYERS, who is now deceased. The establishment of
     the firm is specially well equipped in all departments, the stock
     including heavy and shelf hardware, stoves, ranges, building supplies,
     farm implements and machinery, wagons, buggies, carriages, harness,
     etc. The general hardware department is now in charge of W. C.
     BORGMAN, who has more recently become associated with the prosperous
     enterprise, which is one of the most extensive and important of its
     kind in the county. The firm has an extensive and representative
     trade throughout the fine section of country normally tributary to
     Knox, and the interested principals are alert and progressive business
     men who command unequivocal confidence and esteem.

        MR. HORNER is inflexible in his allegiance to the republican party
     and as candidate on its ticket he was elected trustee of Center Town-
     ship, an ofSce of which he continued the incumbent for a term of four
     years and in which he made an admirable record for effective service
     in behalf of the township and county. In a fraternal way MR. HORNER
     is affiliated with Knox Lodge, No. 296, Knights of Pythias.

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