From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, page 325.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.


HENRY H. HORNBROOK

Henry H. Hornbrook, a prominent citizen and manufacturer of Wheeling, 
and vice president of the Wheeling Iron and Nail company, was born in 
this city December 16, 1842, being a representative of one of the 
oldest and most prominent families of the upper Ohio valley.  His 
parents were Jacob and Ann M. (Killen) Hornbrook.  The father was one 
of the pioneers of Ohio county.  He was an Englishman by birth, 
having emigrated to the United States at an early age.  Ann M. Killen 
was born near Dublin, Ireland, in 1820, and died in Wheeling March 
14, 1886.  She came to this country with her when about twelve years 
old.  Jacob Hornbrook died November 3, 1888. The parents were married 
August 10, 1836, and the following children were born to them: 
Corrina, now the widow of John E. Wilson, residing in California; 
Henry R., deceased; India H., the wife of John G. Kelley, of 
Philadelphia, and Henry H.  The subject of this biography was reared 
in Wheeling, and was educated at Morgantown and at Washington 
college.  April 13, 1861, he enlisted in Company C, First Virginia 
regiment, and participated in the fight at Phillippi, the first 
engagement that took place in what is now West Virginia.  Serving out 
the first three months' enlistment, he re-enlisted for three years in 
Company H, of the First regiment, and was elected second lieutenant 
of his company.  He was in the Shenandoah valley and took part in the 
engagements of that campaign as aide-de-camp to Gen. Thoburn, and was 
in the field of battle when Gen. Sheridan made his famous ride up 
that valley.  After receiving an honorable discharge at the close of 
the war, Lieut. Hornbrook returned to Wheeling and remained there 
until 1866, when he went to Missouri, where he spent some years in 
stock-raising and farming.  Returning to Wheeling in 1875, he engaged 
in steamboating in the Wheeling Tow Boat and Barge company, and, 
subsequently he was in the same business with his uncle, Edwin 
Hornbrook, until October, 1881. He then took a position as clerk in 
the Top mill, and becoming a stockholder in that concern was made a 
director in January, 1882, and vice president in 1883.  Mr. Hornbrook 
was married to Abbie H. Carter, September 14, 1866; she was a 
daughter of S. H. B. Carter, a pioneer of Ohio county, who settled in 
Elm Grove.  Her death occurred May 11, 1876, in her thirty-first 
year.  Five children came to this union.  Mr. Hornbrook again married 
April 22, 1880, this time to Alice J. Cracraft, a sister of Dr. 
Cracraft, of Elm Grove.  One child has come to bless their home. 


(Linda Fluharty)