Biographical | | Biographical article for Lemuel D. Horner. LEMUEL D. HORNER, a prosperous farmer and market-gardener a short distance from the village of Dudley, in the town of Stockton, Camden County, N.J., was born on a farm at North Cramer Hill, near by, on December 20, 1831. His father, William Horner, was born near Bethel; and his mother, whose maiden name was Eunice Fish, was a native of Delair, in the same county of Camden. His paternal grandfather, Merritt Horner, was born in this vicinity. He owned a large tract of land a short distance from Merchantville, where he resided up to his death, living to be over fourscore years of age. He had several children.
William Horner passed the early years of his life on his father’s farm; and, when the time came for him to establish a home of his own, he rented a farm, which he carried on until able to purchase. He then bought a farm at North Cramer Hill, where the thirty remaining years of his life were spent. He died at seventy-two, a man of strict integrity and highly respected. His wife Eunice was a daughter of William Fish, a successful farmer. She bore her husband seven children. The five now living are: Mahlon F.; Lemuel; Eunice, wife of John Morgan; Mary, wife of Samuel Slim; and Elizabeth, wife of Alexander Ross. Mrs. Eunice Horner lived to be seventy-seven years of age. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and her husband belonged to the Society of Friends.
Lemuel D. Horner received a common-school education, the school which he attended being conducted on the pay system, the charge for each child being three cents per day. He remained with his parents until his father’s death, when he came into possession of the farm, which he conducted until 1887. He then sold it to Alfred Cramer, through whose enterprise a village has been built upon it, and purchased his present place at 3519 Westfield Street, a garden farm of about fifty acres. Mr. Horner is the oldest market-gardener in this locality. He ships his produce directly to Philadelphia.
In 1866 Mr. Horner married Emma, daughter of William and Ada L. Carter. She was born in Stockton on her father’s farm, which is near her present home. Besides carrying on his farming and gardening operations, Mr. Carter deals in beef to some extent. He and his wife have three daughters, all of whom are married and live within three hundred feet of the parental home. Mr. and Mrs. Horner have six children: Anna C.; William C.; Minnie R.; Lemuel, Jr.; John; and Emma. William C. Horner was educated in the Friends’ School at Philadelphia, and Lemuel, Jr., at Moorestown. All the children are living at home. William C. Horner married Mary Beideman, and has two children — Ada L. and Russell. He assists his father in carrying on the farm.
Mr. Horner votes as a Republican on national questions, but strongly advocates the principles of the Prohibition party, fully believing that the future welfare and strength of the nation will largely depend upon the stand taken in this direction. He formerly held the office of Tax Collector, and under the town system he served on the Township Committee. He and his wife are members of the Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he is a Steward, and she is identified with the Sunday-school. She is a very active temperance worker, being President of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, of Camden, and has given much time to lecturing upon this subject. The daughter Minnie is also an earnest church and temperance worker.1 |
Person Source | | He had person sources.2,1 |
Birth | 20 Dec 1831 | He was born on 20 Dec 1831 at North Cramer Hill in Camden, New Jersey, United States.1,3,4 |
Birth | Dec 1832 | He was born in Dec 1832 in New Jersey, United States.5,6 |
Census | 1 Jun 1850 | He appeared in the household of William Horner in the 1850 census, at Delaware Township in Camden, New Jersey, United States.3 |
Occupation | 1 Jun 1850 | On 1 Jun 1850 Lemuel D. Horner was a farmer.3 |
Marriage | 1866 | He and Emma Carter were married in 1866.1,5 |
Occupation | 1 Jun 1880 | On 1 Jun 1880 Lemuel D. Horner was a farmer.6 |
Census | 1 Jun 1880 | He with Emma Carter, Anna C. Horner, William C. Horner, Minnie R. Horner, Lemuel D. Horner, Jr., John M. Horner, and Emma Horner appeared in the census on 1 Jun 1880 at Stockton Township in Camden, New Jersey, United States.6 |
Occupation | 1 Jun 1900 | On 1 Jun 1900 Lemuel D. Horner was a farmer.5 |
Census | 1 Jun 1900 | He with Emma Carter, Minnie R. Horner, Lemuel D. Horner, Jr., and John M. Horner appeared in the census on 1 Jun 1900 at 3519 Westfield Avenue in Camden, Camden, New Jersey, United States.5 |
Death | 23 Jan 1903 | Lemuel D. Horner died on 23 Jan 1903 at age 71 at home in Camden, Camden, New Jersey, United States.7,4 |
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