8. Mary, born 21 August, 1832; married Eli Alloway; she is a widow, and resides at Broadtop, Pa. HON. ELIJAH, son of Elijah Horton and Mehitabel R. Coleman (_Elijah_, _Caleb_, _Barnabas_, _Caleb I._), born at Chester, N. J., 15 Dec., 1794; married at Chester, 16 Dec., 1812, by the Rev. Stephen Overton, to SARAH OVERTON, daughter of Rev. Stephen Overton and Phebe Rose, and born at Fire Place, L. I., 4 Jan., 1797. Children: 1. Alfred, born at Chester, N. J., 25 Nov., 1813; married Mary Horton. 2. Charles, born at Chester, N. J., 25 Jan., 1816. 3. Harriet, born at Chester, N. J., 13 July, 1817; died at Nunda, N. Y., 25 Jan., 1843. 4. George Washington, born at Chester, N. J., 29 July, 1819. 5. Phebe Ann, born at Chester, N. J., 16 Sept., 1821. 6. Theodore, born at Chester, N. J., 28 Oct., 1823. 7. Elizabeth, born at Pleasant Grove, N. J., 28 Sept., 1827. 8. Stephen Edwin, born at Chester, N. J., 25 Sept., 1829; died at Goshen, N. Y., 9 Feb., 1849. 9. Sarah Ann, born at Morristown, N. J., 10 June, 1832; died at Oswego, Ia., 28 Jan., 1856. 10. Elijah Augustus, born at West Almond, Alleghany Co., N. Y., 15 Dec., 1833. 11. Henrietta, born at West Almond, Alleghany Co., N. Y., 13 June, 1835. Hon. Elijah Horton's present residence is Oswego, Kosciusko Co., Ia. In a letter bearing date 23d Sept., 1874, he says: "You ask for a short biographical sketch. This I rather decline, further than to say that my life has been devoted to the judicial profession. I studied law in Morristown, N. J., and practiced there until I removed to Alleghany Co., N. Y., in 1832. I served as first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of that county for about ten years. Soon after moving into the State of Indiana in 1844, I was appointed District Judge, and I have served in that office, and also as a Justice of the Peace ever since, until within a few weeks past when I resigned. In looking over my past life, I see many things that I would not do over again, with my past experience, especially would I say long and loud, NO, instead of YES, as I often did. Your letter brings to my mind views and opinions which I have been learning and experiencing for many years of my past life. Habits have grown upon me imperceptibly from my childhood. I have old diaries written in my younger days, in which I find recorded rules for my own conduct, the strict observance of which, has caused me many miles of travel and hours of labor. For illustration, I recall one or two: 'Have a place for everything, and keep everything in its place' and 'Never put off till to morrow what you can as well do to-day.' I began life under such rules, and I have always been tyrannically _ruled_ by them. If I forgot to do anything that I intended to do through the day, and happened to think of it after I had