Wayne County Biographies



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Isaac Vore Horney

Isaac Vore Horney was born in Richmond, Wayne Co., Ind., in 1839, eldest of two children of Solomon and Ruth W. (Vore) Horney. His father was a native of Guilford County, N. C., and settled in Wayne County, Ind., in 1832. He was married in Richmond and established the first plow manufactory in that city, known as the Horney Plow Works, where he was successfully engaged a number of years. Isaac V. was educated in the schools of Richmond and also attended Commercial College in Dayton, Ohio, one term. At the age of eighteen years he entered his father's shops where he was engaged twelve years, and in 1869 he purchased the farm where he has since resided. His farm contains seventy-six acres of fine land, and since purchasing Mr. Horney has made many valuable improvements, and he may be classed among the progressive farmers of Wayne Township. He was married in 1864 to Harriet A., daughter of Elizabeth Rhoads and granddaughter of John E. Elderkin, one of the pioneers of Wayne County. They have two sons — Charles, born in 1865 and died in 1866; William E., born in 1866, now at Commercial College. Mr. Horney is a member of Whitewater Lodge, No. 41, I.O.O.F., and of Oriental Encampment of Richmond.

Source:
History of Wayne County, Indiana. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. 1884.