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T. W. HORTON, M. D., physician and surgeon, Avilla, Mo. Of the many successful practitioners of Jasper county, none are more worthy of special mention than the subject of this sketch. He is a native of the Empire State, born in Cayuga county, Jan. 22, 1837; immigrated with his parents to Schuyler county, Mo., in 1852. Entered the Iowa Medical University at the age of twenty, and graduated from that institution in the school of regular practice in 1864. He first hung out his shingle and engaged at the practice of his profession at Stylesville, Davis county, Iowa, where he enjoyed a good and lucrative practice until 1868, when he became a resident of Jasper county, Mo., locating at Avilla, where his skill in medicine and surgery has been and is duly appreciated, and coupled with his genial pleasant manners and hearty social disposition has endeared him to patrons and public, and secures him a very extensive and successful practice. The Dr. is one of your big hearted souls whose mission seems to be to do good by all men, and he has never yet failed to respond to the call of suffering humanity in season or out of season, in storm or sunshine, and not stopping to enquire whether the applicant was “prince or peasant,” millionaire or beggar. He was married in Davis county, Iowa, June 22, 1859, to Miss Nancy J. Wright, daughter of Levy and Nancy Wright, natives of Kentucky and pioneer settlers of Greencastle, Ind. Of this union there are Lilly J., born Dec. 1, 1860, now wife of D. A. Spencer; Hattie N., born Feb. 1, 1867; Willie F., born Aug. 1, 1873.