SAMUEL

See also:

• DANA, CHARLES ANDERSON (1819–'897)
• DANA, FRANCIS (1743-1811)
• DANA, JAMES DWIGHT (1813-1895)

DANA

See also:

• HORTON, CHRISTIANA (c. 1696–c. 1756)
• HORTON, ROBERT FORMAN (18J5– )
• SAMUEL DANA HORTON (1844–1895)

HORTON (1844–1895)  , American writer on bimetallism, was born in Pomeroy, Ohio, on the 16th of January 1844 . He graduated at Harvard in 1864, and at the Harvard Law School in 1868, studied Roman law in Berlin in 186q, and in 1871 was admitted to the Ohio bar . He practised law in Cincinnati, and then in Pomeroy until 1885, when he gave up law for the advancement of bimetallism . His attention had been turned to monetary questions by the " greenback campaign " of 1875 in Ohio, in which, as in former campaigns, he had spoken, particularly effectively in German, for the Republican party . He was secretary of the American delegation to the Monetary Conference which met in Paris in 1878, and edited the report of the delegation . To the conference of 1881 he was a delegate, and thereafter he spent much of his time in Europe, whither he was sent by President Harrison in 1889 as special commissioner to promote the international restoration of silver . He died in Washington, D.C., on the 23rd of February 1895 . Horton's principal works were The Silver Pound (1887) and Silver in Europe (1890), a volume of essays .