- Thomas Hornor
Thomas Hornor (
March 17 1767 –August 4 1834 ) was a farmer and political figure inUpper Canada .He was born in
Mansfield Township, Burlington County, New Jersey in 1767 and studied at the College of New Jersey. In 1794, he led a group of settlers to Watsons Township, later Blenheim Township, and built asawmill there the following year. The settlement that Hornor established was known as Princeton. Originally, a Quaker, he became a freemason and was appointed a captain in the local militia. In 1800, he became a justice of the peace in the London District and county registrar. He served in the local militia during theWar of 1812 , eventually becoming colonel in 1822.In 1820, he was elected to the
Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada for Oxford; he was reelected in 1824 and 1828. He supported the repeal of the Sedition Act and the right ofBarnabas Bidwell to sit in the legislative assembly.He died in Burford Township in 1834 during a
cholera epidemic. He had been elected again to the legislative assembly after the death ofCharles Ingersoll in 1832 and died while still in office.External links
* [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=2921 Biography at the "Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online"]
* [http://www.ocl.net/projects/princetonm/history.shtml Princeton History]
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