Brothers in NC Senate: W. B. Horton and W. P. Horton
The News and Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina), 9 Jan 1927
"Rather an unusual circumstance is that two of the members of the [North Carolina] State Senate are brothers. They are W. B. [William Banks] Horton, of Yanceyville, and W. P. [Wilkins Perryman] Horton, of Pittsboro. . . .
The following is excerpted from the Chatham Record:
"Thomas Horton brought his wife and children to Chatham from Kansas City, when W. P. was a tot. Both the father and mother of the Senators are Virginians. But the wanderlust carried the father to Texas and later to Kansas City, where he was a merchant, till one Christmas he happened to visit his sister in this county [Chatham County, NC], Mrs. Pete Carter, and found the climate so much to his liking as compared to that of Kansas City, where the snow was then half-leg deep, that he straighway moved his family to Chatham and became a farmer, being located seven or eight miles from Chapel Hill.
"Here the boys grew up. When W. B., was a youth of seventeen or eighteen the wanderlust seized him and he ran away and joined the navy, in which he served 24 years. While Josephus Daniels was secretary of the navy in the first Wilson administration, it will be recalled, he opened examinations for midshipmen to the enlisted men, thus giving them an opportunity to secure rank along with the graduates of Annapolis. W. B. Horton, then having served for nearly a score of years, was fortunate enough to rise from the ranks and thus served as an officer during the World War.
"The war over, he resigned, studied law at the University and at Wake Forest, and began to practice at Yanceyville. He has already served a term in the house of representatives and now goes to the senate, thus rapidly rising in civil affairs after giving 24 years to the navy.
"W. P. can barely remember living in Kansas city and consequently feels himself a native Chathamite. He has already once ably represented his county in the senate [North Carolina Senate]."
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