[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] became the owner, and in 1 x< 1 7 Stephen 1). Horton and William Mabie succeeded him under the firm name of Horton & Mabie. They are the present proprietors. Their manufactures include all shapes of fire-bricks, stove and range linings, cupola brick, and the like. They employ about fourteen men. Stephen D. Horton, the senior member of the firm of Horton & Mabie, is also the sheriff of Westchester County. He was born in Peekskill, February 17, 1837, his ancestry being among the oldest in the country, dating back to the times of the Pilgrims. He is the eighth in the line of descent from Barnabas Horton, one of the founders of the town of Southold, Long Island, in 1640. The line of ancestry is as follows: 1. Barnabas; 2. Joseph; 3. David; 4. Daniel; 5. Stephen; 6. Wright; 7. Frost; 8. Stephen D. His father, Hon. Frost Horton, a prominent citizen of this county, was born September 15, 1806, and rep-resented his district in the Legislature in 1858. He also held many village offices, and was extensively engaged in business in Peekskill. He married Phebe Tompkins, a connection of Governor Daniel B. Tompkins. They were the parents of three children — Stephen D. and Cornelia twins, (the latter died at the age of fifteen), and William James, w ho is the present supervisor of the town of Yorktown. Frost Horton died, much lamented by the community, November 11, 1880, and the village lost a useful and worthy citizen.