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Horton is an Anglo-Saxon surname, deriving from the common English place-name Horton. It derives from Old English horu 'dirt' and tūn 'settlement, farm, estate', presumably meaning 'farm on muddy soil'.
Caroline Norton Charles Eliot Norton George A. Norton. Norton is a surname with origin from the Old English norþ + tun, meaning North settlement (cf., Weston, Sutton, and Easton for other surnames derived from points of the compass).
Sir Alexander Cumming-Gordon, 1st Baronet (1749–1806), Scottish politician; Catherine Rose Gordon-Cumming (born 1952), Katie Fforde, British romance novelist; Constance Gordon-Cumming (1837–1924), Scottish travel writer and painter
Barry Houston (born 1970), American professional wrestler; Bill Houston (disambiguation), multiple people Bob Houston (1877–1954), Scottish footballer; Bobbie Houston (born 1957), New Zealand-Australian pastor
Abraham Thornton; Al Thornton (born 1983), American basketball player; Alfred Thornton (1853–1906), English footballer from the 1870s; Alice Thornton (1626–1707), British autobiographer
Horton was born 1813 in Union, Connecticut, the scion of an old New England family, [1] and grew up in Onondaga County, New York.By his 20s he had developed a keen entrepreneurial spirit, and in 1834, when he was 21, he began transporting grain by boat from the Lake Ontario port of Oswego, New York, to Canada.
George Moses Horton (c. 1798–after 1867), was an African-American poet from North Carolina who was enslaved until Union troops, carrying the Emancipation Proclamation, reached North Carolina (1865). Horton is the first African-American author to be published in the United States.
From Middle English a topographic name for someone who lived on a lane, used to denote any narrow pathway, including one between houses in a town.A Norman or Breton origin has also been proposed for some people bearing this surname, derived from L'Asne, itself perhaps coming from a nickname such as le Asinus (the Ass) or from a toponym in Normandy or Brittany.
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