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HORTON, SAMUEL DANA (1844–1895)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 783 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HORTON, See also:SAMUEL See also:DANA (1844–1895) , See also:American writer on See also:bimetallism, was See also:born in See also:Pomeroy, See also:Ohio, on the 16th of See also:January 1844. He graduated at Harvard in 1864, and at the Harvard See also:Law School in 1868, studied See also:Roman law in See also:Berlin in 186q, and in 1871 was admitted to the Ohio See also:bar. He practised law in See also:Cincinnati, and then in Pomeroy until 1885, when he gave up law for the See also:advancement of bimetallism. His See also:attention had been turned to monetary questions by the " greenback See also:campaign " of 1875 in Ohio, in which, as in former See also:campaigns, he had spoken, particularly effectively in See also:German, for the Republican party. He was secretary of the American delegation to the Monetary See also:Conference which met in See also:Paris in 1878, and edited the See also:report of the delegation. To the conference of 1881 he was a delegate, and thereafter he spent much of his See also:time in See also:Europe, whither he was sent by See also:President See also:Harrison in 1889 as See also:special See also:commissioner to promote the See also:international restoration of See also:silver. He died in See also:Washington, D.C., on the 23rd of See also:February 1895. Horton's See also:principal See also:works were The Silver See also:Pound (1887) and Silver in Europe (1890), a See also:volume of essays.

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