FRANK G. HORNING, born in Baden, Germany, August 15, 1830; son of Jacob and Christena (Borrell) Horning, who were natives of Baden, Germany, and both are dead. The subject of this sketch received a common school education in Germany, and was raised on a farm. At the age of twenty-two he emigrated to America, and landed in New Orleans. From thence he went to St. Louis, and thence to Morgan county, Illinois, where he engaged as a farm hand for Samuel Westfield. Thence he came to Sangamon county, and located in the town of Rochester, where he engaged as farm hand for Samuel Jones and John Highmore. He was married in 1856 to Frances Mitchell, who was born in Kentucky in 1837. They have had thirteen children, eleven of whom are now living: Christena A., James F., Laura A., Frank J., John S., Lucinda C., Wm. Riley, George I., Otto, Bessie M. Robert and Viola have died. He now owns one hundred and six acres of land in Rochester township, which is under a fair state of cultivation, and worth $50 per acre. Politically he is Democratic.