Horn

Charleston he became the most influential Lu-
theran minister of the South Atlantic states. On
June 15, 1880, he married Harriet Chisolm of
Charleston, by whom he had four sons and three
daughters. He was president of the South Caro-
lina Synod, 1882-84, of the United Synod of the
South, 1887-91, of the Ministerium of Pennsyl-
vania, 1909-13, and of the General Council board
of foreign missions, 1907-15. In 1910 he visited
Europe. In 1911 he was made professor of
ethics and missions in the Philadelphia Theo-
logical Seminary. Three years later he developed
a fatal disease of the heart. He died at Mount
Airy, Philadelphia, and was buried at Reading.
His wife and five of their children survived him.
He was an efficient, urbane, scholarly clergy-
man and a distinguished liturgiologist The pub-
lication in 1871 of a new edition of the General
Council's Church Book first aroused his interest
in liturgies and led him to make a careful study
of the materials and principles on which the
Church Book was founded. When he went to
Charleston he threw himself whole-heartedly into
the movement, begun in his old age by John
Bachman and ably continued by Junius B. Rem-
ensnyder, to secure a common service for all
English-speaking Lutherans. Horn himself, in
the Lutheran Quarterly for April 1881, was the
first to use the term "Common Service'* as it is
now understood. He was secretary from 1886
till his death of the joint committee of the United
Synod of the South, the General Synod, and the
General Council which prepared the Common
Service, and was likewise secretary of the
sub-committee, consisting of Beale Melancthon
Schmucker [#.#.], George U. Wenner, and him-
self, which did the actual work. "The first and
final preparation of material was in his hands.
He held the balance of power in the Committee
and used it with rare judgment and effectiveness.
His were the initiative and the energy which
pushed the project to completion, and his the
taste and judgment which determined many of
its details" (L. D. Reed, in Lutheran Church
Review, October 1917, p. 517). The Common
Service, first published in 1888 by the United
Synod of the South, is now widely used in the
English Lutheran churches of North America
and has been translated into Telugu, Japanese,
Spanish, and Italian. Horn also did much of the
work on the Common Service Book (1917). He
contributed to the Lutheran, the Lutheran Church
Review, the Lutheran Quarterly, and the Mem-
oirs of the Lutheran Liturgical Association. A
number of his articles on liturgical subjects were
of great influence and are of permanent interest.

Be was the traaslptpr rf WUhelm Lobe's Gate-

Horn

chism (1893) and Three Books Concerning the
Church (1908), and was the author of The Chris-
tian Year (1876), The Evangelical Pastor
(1887), an Outline of Liturgies (1890, 1912),
the sections on Philippians, Colossians, Thes-
salonians, and Philemon in the Lutheran Com-
mentary, vols. IX and X (1896-97), and Swrir
mer Sermons (1908).

[Sources of information include L. D. Reed, The
Phila. Seminary Biog. Record 1864-1923 (1923); Who's
Who in America, 1914-15 ; T. E. Schmauk, editorial in
Luth. Ch. Rev., Apr. 1015; L. D. Reed, "Hist. Sketch
of the Common Service/' in Luth. Ch. Rev.t Oct. 1917;
E. T. Horn, "St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church,"
in the Year Book (1884) of the City of Charleston, S.
C, and "The United Synod of the South," in The Dis-
tinctive Doctrines and Usages of the Gen. Bodies of
the Ev. Luth. Ch. (1893); Proc. and Addresses Pa.

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College, and with Prof. Andrew G. Voigt of the Lu-
theran Theological Seminary, Columbia, S. C. Horn's
papers are in the library of the Phila. TheoL Sem.]

G.H.G.

HORN, GEORGE HENRY (Apr. 7, 1840-
Nov. 24, 1897), entomologist, physician, was
born in Philadelphia and lived there nearly all
his life. He was the oldest child of Philip Henry
Horn and Frances Isabella Brock and the grand-
son of Philip Horn, born in Rhenish Prussia,
who came to America in 1798. He graduated
from the Philadelphia High School and received
his doctorate in medicine from the University of
Pennsylvania in 1861. In 1862 he went to Cali-
fornia. In 1863 he became assistant surgeon in
an infantry regiment of California volunteers,
becoming surgeon in 1864. Mustered out with
the staff of his regiment in April 1866, he re-
turned to Philadelphia and began the practice of
medicine, which he continued for the rest of his
life, specializing in obstetrics. During his army
service in the West and Southwest he had col-
lected Coleoptera extensively. He had been at-
tracted to this group of insects at an earlier date,
and his first paper was published in Volume XII
(1861) of the Proceedings of the Academy of
Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. From the time
of his return to Philadelphia he was constantly
engaged, aside from his medical practice, in the
study of Coleoptera. He was made president of
the Entomological Society of Philadelphia in
1866. He was associated in his earlier work with
Dr. John L. LeConte [#.#.], and the great work,
The Classification of the Coleoptera of North
America, was published by the Smithsonian In-
stitution (Miscellaneous Collections, vol. XXVI)
in 1883 tinder their joint authorship. He had
been greatly interested in the Academy of Natu-
ral Sciences from his earlier days, and after the
death of LeConte m 1883 he w^s elected bis suc-

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