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Geo. F. (George Firman) Horton
1806–1886
A 19th-century physician and family historian, this author is best remembered for compiling one of the early detailed records of the Horton family in America. His work preserves generations of names, stories, and connections that might otherwise have been lost.
1 Audiobook
Horton Genealogy or Chronicles of the Descendants of Barnabas Horton, of Southold, L. I., 1640.
by Geo. F. (George Firman) Horton
About the author
Born in 1806, George Firman Horton was an American doctor and genealogical writer. He is chiefly known for Horton Genealogy; or, Chronicles of the Descendants of Barnabas Horton, of Southold, L. I., 1640, published in 1876, a substantial family history tracing the descendants of an early Long Island settler.
Library and archive records identify him as "Geo. F. (George Firman) Horton" and also as George Firman Horton, M.D. His writing reflects the patient, documentary style of 19th-century genealogy, gathering family lines and local history into a single reference work that remained useful enough to be reprinted and preserved by major digital archives.
He died in 1886. In the surviving online material reviewed here, the clearest confirmed legacy is his genealogical work rather than a broader literary career, and a reliable portrait image was not available from the pages examined.