The Supreme Court of Kansas. duties of the responsible office proving too laborious for his constitution, he resigned and retired from active public life. Judge Kingman continues to reside in Topeka, the capital of the State; he has carried with him into his retirement the affable and courteous manners that ever marked his official life, and is as dignified as when presiding on the bench. When he came to Kansas, there were only two parties in the State, — Free-State and Proslavery; he could only act with the former, for notwithstanding his long resi dence in Kentucky, his convictions of true State policy and right led him to oppose the "peculiar institution." But while serving his constituents in that Southern State, and conscientiously discharging his duties toward them, respecting their opinions on that question, he quietly sustained his own, and has always held sound antislavery ideas re garding the negro and forced conditions of servitude. On the 29th of October, 1844, Judge Kingman was married to Matilda Willetts, daughter of Samuel and Susan Hartman, at Terre Haute, Ind. Miss Hartman was a native of Catavvissa, Penn.; but her parents dying in her infancy, she was removed by her guardian to Terre Haute, where she was reared. In his official life Judge Kingman has conferred honor upon his adopted State. On the Supreme Bench he was an ornament to his position; his judicial decisions were always marked with careful deliberation, deep research, and profound legal acumen, commanding the unqualified respect of the bar of the State. His style was never highly ornate, but was simple, perspicuous, and di rect. The " Temple of Justice " has rarely been presided over by a more honorable representative of high moral manhood than Samuel A. Kingman, both as Associate Jus tice upon the Supreme Bench and as ChiefJustice of Kansas. The Horton family, of which Albert H. Horton, the present Chief-Justice of Kan
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sas, is a descendant, may be traced to a remote antiquity. Ever since the conquest of Britain by Caesar, the name has been known in England, is of Anglo-Saxon ori gin in its conjunctive form, and derivatively Latin. It is of record that one Robert de Horton manumitted a bondman to his manor of Horton, long before the time of Henry Larey, Earl of Lincoln, who died in 1 3 10. It is also clearly shown that the Hortons possessed a manor-house in Great Horton, at a remote period. The patronymic Horton, in the Anglo-Saxon, means an enclosure, or garden of vegetables, — from ort, plant, and tun, fenced in, or cir cumscribed. The Horton coat-of-arms in England is : A stag's head caboched, silver attired, gold; and for distinction the canton ermined. Crest, out of the waves of the sea, proper, a tilting spear erect, gold, a dolphin enfiled with silver fins, gold, and the emblem a shell. The legend : " Quod vult, valde vult" (What he wills, he wills cordially). William Horton, Esq., of Frith House, in Barksland Halifax, descended from the fore going Robert Horton, who married Elisa beth, daughter of Thomas Hanson, Esq., of Toothill, and died about the year 1640. He had issue as follows : William Horton, of Barksland, or Bark Island Hall, who pur chased in the fifteenth century, of the unfor tunate Charles I., the estate of Howroyde, was born about 1576; Joseph Horton about 1578. Barnabas Horton, who is the ancestor of all the Horton family in America, was the son of Joseph Horton, and was born in the little hamlet of Mously, Leicestershire, on the 13th of July (old style), 1600. He came over to this country in the ship " Swallow" between 1633 and 1638, and landed at Hampton, Mass. In 1640 he moved to New Haven, Conn., where on the 21st day of October, that year, in conjunction with the venerable Rev. John Davenport and Governor Eaton, he organized a Congre gational Church, and immediately departed for the east end of Long Island, now Southold. All of these primitive Christians had
