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This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities; this finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.
Size | 2.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 1,100 items) |
Abstract | Alexander Hamilton Horton was a farmer and general merchant of Wilkes County, N.C. The collection is chiefly business and legal papers of Horton, of other members of his family, and their neighbors in the areas near Wilkesboro and Elkinville in Wilkes County. Included are bills, receipts, and accounts concerning lands and farming in Wilkes and Caldwell counties, and to a lesser extent in Missouri. There are some records of Horton as clerk of the Wilkes County Superior Court, 1875-1887. Papers after 1890 relate to his widow, Mary Jane Vogler Horton, and their son, Hamilton Vogler Horton, Winston-Salem, N.C., with scattered items relating to the latter's dental practice. Volumes include miscellaneous merchants' records, 1868-1871; scattered account books; and legal memoranda. |
Creator | Horton, Alexander Hamilton, d. 1890. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, September 2009
This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.
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Alexander Hamilton Horton (died 1890) was a farmer and general merchant of Wilkes County, N.C. His business activities included work as a sales and purchase agent for for his father-in-law, E. A. Vogler; the raising of livestock and corn; a partnership with Phineas Horton in general merchandising at Elkville, N.C., in the 1870s, and in landowning and other business; and the administration of Phineas Horton's estate, including Elk Farm and its tenants. He also served as a clerk of Wilkes County Superior Court, 1875-1887.
He was married to Mary Jane Vogler Horton and their son was Hamilton Vogler Horton, a dentist of Winston-Salem, N.C.
Back to TopThe collection is chiefly business and legal papers of Alexander Hamilton Horton, of other members of his family, and their neighbors in the areas near Wilkesboro and Elkinville in Wilkes County, N.C. Included are bills, receipts, and accounts concerning lands and farming in Wilkes and Caldwell counties, and to a lesser extent in Missouri. There are some records of Horton as clerk of the Wilkes County Superior Court, 1875-1887. Papers after 1890 relate to his widow, Mary Jane Vogler Horton, and their son, Hamilton Vogler Horton, with scattered items relating to the latter's dental practice. Volumes include miscellaneous merchants' records, 1868-1871; scattered account books; and legal memoranda.
Back to TopMany of the papers are related to land ownership and farm operations and include deeds, rental agreements, property tax papers, tenant contracts, estate settlement items, and correspondence. There are also some undated speeches given by H. V. Horton to the North Carolina Dental Society and to Moravian Falls Academy.
Folder 1a |
Original finding aid |
Folder 1 |
1813, 1854-1869 |
Folder 2 |
1870-1875 |
Folder 3 |
1876-1877 |
Folder 4 |
1878-1879 |
Folder 5 |
1880-1882 |
Folder 6 |
1883-1884 |
Folder 7 |
1885-1889 |
Folder 8 |
1890-1893 |
Folder 9 |
1894-1899 |
Folder 10 |
1900-1912, 1922, 1925 |
Folder 11 |
Undated miscellaneous |
Folder 12 |
H. V. Horton speeches, undated |
Papers concerned with titles and distribution of property from various estates. Some papers related to these estates are also included in the chronological series.
Folder 13 |
Jarvis Estate papers, 1872-1890 |
Folder 14 |
Robert Hays Estate papers, 1882-1884 |
Folder 15 |
Phineas Horton Estate vouchers, 1887-1890 |
Folder 16 |
Alexander Hamilton Horton Estate account, 1891-1897 |
Folder 17-33
Folder 17Folder 18Folder 19Folder 20Folder 21Folder 22Folder 23Folder 24Folder 25Folder 26Folder 27Folder 28Folder 29Folder 30Folder 31Folder 32Folder 33 |
Unsorted bills and receipts |
Folder 34 |
Volume 1: Account and memoranda book, Alexander Hamilton Horton as agent for E. A. Vogler, 1868-1870 |
Folder 35 |
Volume 2: Account book, Alexander Hamilton Horton, 1869-1871; Court records, 1883-1889Court records kept by Alexander Hamilton Horton as Clerk of Superior Court include witness tickets filed, showing names of cases, witnesses, and amounts. |
Folder 36 |
Volume 3: Account and memoranda book, 1870-1874 |
Folder 37 |
Volume 4: Unbound accounts, memoranda, and financial statements, 1875-1888Includes some court records. |
Folder 38 |
Volume 5: Memoranda, 1886-1888 |
Folder 39 |
Volume 6: Memoranda, 1887-1890 |
Folder 40 |
Volume 7: Unidentified alphabetical index |