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c.1856 Born in Wolverhampton[1]
1880 The brothers Benjamin Horton, a gentleman of Birmingham, William, a solicitor and Joseph, a provision merchant, were the executors of their father, Isaac Horton[2]
1881 A solicitor's clerk, living with his mother in Edgbaston[3]
1887 Purchased the cycle business of Joseph Devey which was then combined into the new Humber and Co[4]
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