Edmond Henry Horne
Edmund Henry (E.H) Horne, (born February 13, 1865 in Enfield, Nova Scotia, Canada) was a Canadian businessman and prospector. He was most famous for being the founder of Noranda, a mining and metallurgy company originally from Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, Canada.
Life
Edmund Horne was a great-grandson of Jacob Horn who is rumoured to have fought at the battle at the Plains of Abraham. (Jacob Horn was granted land in Eastern Passage, Nova Scotia. Jacob's son, Andrew Philip Horne, brought his family to settle at the eastern side of Shubenacadie Grand Lake which would become known as Horne Settlement and later Enfield.)
Horne worked for several years learning the trade in the gold mines of Renfrew, Nova Scotia and Oldham near his home in Nova Scotia. He then went to Colorado, and then to the gold camps of British Columbia and California. In 1908, Horne caught wind of the silver discoveries in Cobalt, Ontario and travelled back to the area.
He was first attracted by the general rock structure of the Rouyn area in 1911. Results of three subsequent trips to the Quebec township proved disappointing, but had the tenacity and prospector's instinct that refused to be downed. As a consequence in 1920 he succeeded in forming a syndicate to finance the staking and development of the present 600-acre (2.4 km2) area. The series of operations culminating in the incorporation under the Laws of Ontario of Noranda were started in August, 1922, when claims staked by Edmund Horne in Rouyn Township, Quebec, were optioned by a syndicate formed a few months previous for the purpose of exploring promising areas, the acquirement of claims and the general development of mining properties. The Horne claims, together with a number of other properties that had been acquired developed Noranda into an outstanding copper-gold producer. Noranda went on to employ more than 32,000 people, and have assets in excess of $11.8 billion.
Henry Horne
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Henry Horne (Australian politician)
Henry Edwin Horne (8 September 1872 – 14 July 1955) was an Australian politician.
He was born in Bibbenluke to pioneer William John Horne and Anne Louise Wilson. He attended the local public school and from 1887 to 1889 was student teacher at Bombala. He taught at Coolah Bridge from 1890 to 1899, when he resigned to farm a property at Leadville. In 1896 he married Isabell Cameron, with whom he had four children. He was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1907 as the Labor member for Liverpool Plains. He served until 1911, when he resigned from parliament and the party in protest at Lands Minister Niels Nielsen's attempt to outlaw the conversion of leasehold land to freehold. His resignation, together with that of Mudgee MLA Bill Dunn, left the McGowen government without a majority, forcing the adjournment of parliament. Horne did not contest the resulting by-election, which was won by the Liberal candidate, but unlike Dunn he did not return to the Labor Party and in 1917 was appointed to the Legislative Council as a Nationalist. He remained in the upper house until his death at Bondi in 1955, by which time he was a Liberal.
Henry Horne (MP)
Henry Horne (fl. 1400 - 1434) was an English politician.
Life
The Hornes were a prominent Kent family, around Horne's Place, near Appledore, Kent.
Horne had at least one son, the soldier and MP, Robert Horne, and a daughter, Joan Horne, who married William Haute.
Career
Horne was Member of Parliament for Kent October 1404. He was appointed sheriff of Kent for 1406–1407. But his name has been recorded as 'Michael'.
Death
There is no definite record of Horne being alive after 1434.
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