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About Thomas Hornor
- Thomas Hornor (March 17, 1767 – August 4, 1834) was a farmer and political figure in Upper Canada. He was born in Mansfield Township, Burlington County, New Jersey in 1767 and studied at the College of New Jersey.
- In 1794, he led a group of settlers to Watsons Township, later Blenheim Township, and built a sawmill there the following year.
- The settlement that Hornor established was known as Princeton.
- Originally, a Quaker, he became a freemason and was appointed a captain in the local militia.
- In 1800, he became a justice of the peace in the London District and county registrar.
- He served in the local militia during the War of 1812, eventually becoming colonel in 1822. In 1820, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada for Oxford; he was reelected in 1824 and 1828.
- He supported the repeal of the Sedition Act and the right of Barnabas Bidwell to sit in the legislative assembly. He died in Burford Township in 1834 during a cholera epidemic.
- He had been elected again to the legislative assembly after the death of Charles Ingersoll in 1832 and died while still in office.
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