Age: 36 years 7 months 8 days
Captain, Company A, Second Regiment, Kansas Volunteer Infantry
Leonard W. Horne, and Laura A. Smith, were married July 12, 1849 at Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts. There children were Laura Isadore (1851-1852) and Charles Leonard (1854-1885). Laura I. died of cholera infantum, Sep. 1, 1852 at Woburn.
Leonard came to Kansas Territory in the mid fifties and with his brothers, Daniel and John, helped build the new town of Topeka. He established a brick-yard just out of town. He also served as Captain of the Topeka Guard Kansas Volunteers headquartered at Lawrence.
Leonard and his brother, John B. Horne, were violinists in Topeka's first band, organized in 1855. The band, a force in the Free-State meetings, also consisted of a third violin, a tenor drum and a fife.
He advertised the opening of a singing school in the schoolhouse at Topeka in 1860. The item in the Topeka Tribune (November 24, 1860, 3:1), specified “Terms one dollar for twelve lessons. Mr. Horne is a good singer and likewise a good teacher of music.”
On January 29, 1861 Kansas became the 34th state. The Second Regiment Kansas Volunteer Infantry was mustered into the service of the United States on June 20, 1861. Company A, led by Captain Leonard W. Horne, bore a part in the battle of Wilson's Creek on August, 10, 1861.
Death Notice:
DEATH OF CAPT HORNE—Capt. Horne who was knocked down and robbed sometime since, died at the Tremont House on Saturday night from the effects of the injuries he had received. His body was taken to Topeka on Sunday, escorted out of the city by members of King Solomon and Leavenworth Lodges and Masons.
—Daily Times (Leavenworth, KS), November 12, 1861.
Burial Record:
Res.: 72 Topeka Ave
Buried: Nov. 12, 1861
Relatives: Samuel and Lydia Horne
Middle Name Source: Blake, Carton E. Descendants of Jasper Blake, Emigrant from England to Hampton, N.H., Ca. 1643, 1649-1979. Gateway Press, 1980. p 229
Captain, Company A, Second Regiment, Kansas Volunteer Infantry
Leonard W. Horne, and Laura A. Smith, were married July 12, 1849 at Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts. There children were Laura Isadore (1851-1852) and Charles Leonard (1854-1885). Laura I. died of cholera infantum, Sep. 1, 1852 at Woburn.
Leonard came to Kansas Territory in the mid fifties and with his brothers, Daniel and John, helped build the new town of Topeka. He established a brick-yard just out of town. He also served as Captain of the Topeka Guard Kansas Volunteers headquartered at Lawrence.
Leonard and his brother, John B. Horne, were violinists in Topeka's first band, organized in 1855. The band, a force in the Free-State meetings, also consisted of a third violin, a tenor drum and a fife.
He advertised the opening of a singing school in the schoolhouse at Topeka in 1860. The item in the Topeka Tribune (November 24, 1860, 3:1), specified “Terms one dollar for twelve lessons. Mr. Horne is a good singer and likewise a good teacher of music.”
On January 29, 1861 Kansas became the 34th state. The Second Regiment Kansas Volunteer Infantry was mustered into the service of the United States on June 20, 1861. Company A, led by Captain Leonard W. Horne, bore a part in the battle of Wilson's Creek on August, 10, 1861.
Death Notice:
DEATH OF CAPT HORNE—Capt. Horne who was knocked down and robbed sometime since, died at the Tremont House on Saturday night from the effects of the injuries he had received. His body was taken to Topeka on Sunday, escorted out of the city by members of King Solomon and Leavenworth Lodges and Masons.
—Daily Times (Leavenworth, KS), November 12, 1861.
Burial Record:
Res.: 72 Topeka Ave
Buried: Nov. 12, 1861
Relatives: Samuel and Lydia Horne
Middle Name Source: Blake, Carton E. Descendants of Jasper Blake, Emigrant from England to Hampton, N.H., Ca. 1643, 1649-1979. Gateway Press, 1980. p 229
Age: 36 years 7 months 8 days
Captain, Company A, Second Regiment, Kansas Volunteer Infantry
Leonard W. Horne, and Laura A. Smith, were married July 12, 1849 at Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts. There children were Laura Isadore (1851-1852) and Charles Leonard (1854-1885). Laura I. died of cholera infantum, Sep. 1, 1852 at Woburn.
Leonard came to Kansas Territory in the mid fifties and with his brothers, Daniel and John, helped build the new town of Topeka. He established a brick-yard just out of town. He also served as Captain of the Topeka Guard Kansas Volunteers headquartered at Lawrence.
Leonard and his brother, John B. Horne, were violinists in Topeka's first band, organized in 1855. The band, a force in the Free-State meetings, also consisted of a third violin, a tenor drum and a fife.
He advertised the opening of a singing school in the schoolhouse at Topeka in 1860. The item in the Topeka Tribune (November 24, 1860, 3:1), specified “Terms one dollar for twelve lessons. Mr. Horne is a good singer and likewise a good teacher of music.”
On January 29, 1861 Kansas became the 34th state. The Second Regiment Kansas Volunteer Infantry was mustered into the service of the United States on June 20, 1861. Company A, led by Captain Leonard W. Horne, bore a part in the battle of Wilson's Creek on August, 10, 1861.
Death Notice:
DEATH OF CAPT HORNE—Capt. Horne who was knocked down and robbed sometime since, died at the Tremont House on Saturday night from the effects of the injuries he had received. His body was taken to Topeka on Sunday, escorted out of the city by members of King Solomon and Leavenworth Lodges and Masons.
—Daily Times (Leavenworth, KS), November 12, 1861.
Burial Record:
Res.: 72 Topeka Ave
Buried: Nov. 12, 1861
Relatives: Samuel and Lydia Horne
Middle Name Source: Blake, Carton E. Descendants of Jasper Blake, Emigrant from England to Hampton, N.H., Ca. 1643, 1649-1979. Gateway Press, 1980. p 229
Captain, Company A, Second Regiment, Kansas Volunteer Infantry
Leonard W. Horne, and Laura A. Smith, were married July 12, 1849 at Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts. There children were Laura Isadore (1851-1852) and Charles Leonard (1854-1885). Laura I. died of cholera infantum, Sep. 1, 1852 at Woburn.
Leonard came to Kansas Territory in the mid fifties and with his brothers, Daniel and John, helped build the new town of Topeka. He established a brick-yard just out of town. He also served as Captain of the Topeka Guard Kansas Volunteers headquartered at Lawrence.
Leonard and his brother, John B. Horne, were violinists in Topeka's first band, organized in 1855. The band, a force in the Free-State meetings, also consisted of a third violin, a tenor drum and a fife.
He advertised the opening of a singing school in the schoolhouse at Topeka in 1860. The item in the Topeka Tribune (November 24, 1860, 3:1), specified “Terms one dollar for twelve lessons. Mr. Horne is a good singer and likewise a good teacher of music.”
On January 29, 1861 Kansas became the 34th state. The Second Regiment Kansas Volunteer Infantry was mustered into the service of the United States on June 20, 1861. Company A, led by Captain Leonard W. Horne, bore a part in the battle of Wilson's Creek on August, 10, 1861.
Death Notice:
DEATH OF CAPT HORNE—Capt. Horne who was knocked down and robbed sometime since, died at the Tremont House on Saturday night from the effects of the injuries he had received. His body was taken to Topeka on Sunday, escorted out of the city by members of King Solomon and Leavenworth Lodges and Masons.
—Daily Times (Leavenworth, KS), November 12, 1861.
Burial Record:
Res.: 72 Topeka Ave
Buried: Nov. 12, 1861
Relatives: Samuel and Lydia Horne
Middle Name Source: Blake, Carton E. Descendants of Jasper Blake, Emigrant from England to Hampton, N.H., Ca. 1643, 1649-1979. Gateway Press, 1980. p 229
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