Samuel Dana Horton
Samuel Dana Horton (
January 16,
1844 -
February 23,
1895),
American writer on
bimetallism, was born in
Pomeroy, Ohio.
He graduated at
Harvard in 1864, and at the
Harvard Law School in 1868, studied
Roman law in
Berlin in 1869, and in 1871 was admitted to the Ohio bar. He practised law in
Cincinnati, and then in Pomeroy until 1885, when he gave up law for the advancement of bimetallism.
His attention had been turned to monetary questions by the
greenback campaign of 1873 in Ohio, in which, as in former campaigns, he had spoken, particularly effectively in
German, for the
Republican party. He was secretary of the American delegation to the Monetary Conference which met in
Paris in 1878, and edited the report of the delegation.
To the conference of 1881 he was a delegate, and thereafter he spent much of his time in Europe, whither he was sent by
President Harrison in 1889 as special commissioner to promote the international restoration of silver. He died in
Washington, DC.
Horton's principal works were
The Silver Pound (1887) and
Silver in Europe (1890), a volume of essays.
