Elias Horry

Horry was born in 1773 and received a private education suitable for his class. He joined Charles Cotesworth Pinckney's office as a law student.{{cite news | url=http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/HistArchive/?p_product=EANX&p_theme=ahnp&p_nbid=Q6ET56LUMTM5MDY2ODc1MS44NjUwNDg6MToxNDoxOTIuMTUyLjI0OS4yOQ&p_action=doc&f_content=body&p_queryname=6&p_docnum=25&p_docref=v2:10FF2B6D82402430@EANX-1106D76C213E8750@2391204-1106D76C6E1F9A18@1-1106D76DCD020078@%5BQuarterly%3B%20Charleston%3B%20Library%20Society%3B%20Preamble%3B%20Resolutions%3B%20Benjamin%20Elliott%2C%20Esq%3B%20Providence%3B%20Elias%20Horry%2C%20Esq%5D | title=At a quarterly meeting . . . | work=The Southern Patriot | date=October 17, 1834 | accessdate=January 25, 2014 | location=Charleston, South Carolina | pages=2}}

He married twice. In 1797 he married Harriet Vanderhorst, who bore three sons and two daughters before her death: Thomas Lynch Horry (1806–1871); Harriet Vanderhorst Horry Frost (1807–1890); Ann Branford Horry (1812–1824) and Elias Horry (1815–1817). The widower then married Mary R. Shubrick in 1817, who bore Alicia Mary Horry (1820–1826); Elias Horry (1822–1839); and Richard Shubrick Horry (1823–1824).

In 1793, Horry was admitted to the South Carolina bar. He represented St. James, Santee, in the South Carolina General Assembly from 1794 to 1804.

Horry was elected warden (city council member) in September 1813 before becoming the interim intendant (mayor) on March 30, 1815, after Thomas Rhett Smith resigned.{{cite news | url=http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/HistArchive/?p_product=EANX&p_theme=ahnp&p_nbid=Q6ET56LUMTM5MDY2ODc1MS44NjUwNDg6MToxNDoxOTIuMTUyLjI0OS4yOQ&p_action=doc&f_content=body&p_queryname=6&p_docnum=3&p_docref=v2:1089C6C0AF0CEFE8@EANX-108E898B758946C8@2384065-108E898BD6EBEB80@2-108E898D19AB2AC0@%5BElias%20Horry%2C%20Esq%3B%20Thursday%3B%20Intendant%3B%20T.%20R.%20Smith%20%5D | title=Elias Horry, Esq. . . . | work=City Gazette and Daily Advertiser | date=April 1, 1815 | accessdate=January 25, 2014 | location=Charleston, South Carolina | pages=3}} On September 18, 1815, he was elected to a full term and then re-elected September 16, 1816,{{cite news | url=http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/HistArchive/?p_product=EANX&p_theme=ahnp&p_nbid=Q6ET56LUMTM5MDY2ODc1MS44NjUwNDg6MToxNDoxOTIuMTUyLjI0OS4yOQ&p_action=doc&f_content=body&p_queryname=6&p_docnum=8&p_docref=v2:1089C6C0AF0CEFE8@EANX-108EC9DAE0A9E488@2384600-108EC9DB306F5A60@1-108EC9DD4DC4BC08@%5BElias%20Horry%2C%20Esq.%3B%20Intendant%3B%20City%5D | title=Elias Horry, Esq. . . . | work=City Gazette and Daily Advertiser | date=September 17, 1816 | accessdate=January 25, 2014 | location=Charleston, South Carolina | pages=2}} defeating Daniel Stevens.{{cite news | url=http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/HistArchive/?p_product=EANX&p_theme=ahnp&p_nbid=Q6ET56LUMTM5MDY2ODc1MS44NjUwNDg6MToxNDoxOTIuMTUyLjI0OS4yOQ&p_action=doc&f_content=body&p_queryname=6&p_docnum=7&p_docref=v2:1089C6C0AF0CEFE8@EANX-108EC9D73B7DD3F0@2384599-108EC9D788364798@1-108EC9D9D025AEA8@%5BIntendant%3B%20A.%20M.%3B%20Places%3B%20Court-House%3B%20Centre%20Market%3B%20Candidates%3B%20Elias%20Horry%2C%20Esq.%3B%20Colonel%20Daniel%20Stevens%5D | title=An election for Intendant . . . | work=City Gazette and Daily Advertiser | date=September 16, 1816 | accessdate=January 25, 2014 | location=Charleston, South Carolina | pages=2}} After four terms by two other mayors, Horry returned to the position, after having been elected on September 4, 1820, for one more term.{{cite web|url=http://www.halseymap.com/flash/mayors-detail.asp?polID=19 |title=Elias Horry |publisher=Preservation Society of Charleston |accessdate=January 25, 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202180239/http://www.halseymap.com/flash/mayors-detail.asp?polID=19 |archivedate=February 2, 2014 }}

Many years later, he again served in the South Carolina House of Representatives, representing the Charleston area from 1830 to 1833.

Horry owned several plantations which he operated using enslaved labor, including: The Bluff, Wattahan, Milldam, Jutland, Camp Main, Camp Island, Newland, Midland and Millbrook plantations (Santee River) in Georgetown District and St. James, Santee, Parish.

Image:Branford-Horry House.jpg at 59 Meeting St., Charleston, South Carolina from his father, Thomas Horry, and added the front portico.]]

Horry became president of the South Carolina Canal and Railroad Company in 1831.{{cite book|last1=Smith|first1=Alice R. Huger|last2=Smith|first2=D.E. Huger|title=The Dwelling Houses of Charleston|date=2007|publisher=The History Press|location=Charleston|isbn=9781596292611|pages=60}}

Horry died on September 17, 1834. He is buried at the Cathedral of St. Luke and St. Paul in Charleston, South Carolina. The Branford-Horry House in which he was raised and later lived in Charleston was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970, and remains in private ownership.{{Cite web|url=https://www.curbed.com/2018/2/7/16984826/branford-horry-house-charleston-sc|title=1750s colonial with exquisite original details asks $6.2M in Charleston|date=7 February 2018}}

{{Reflist}}

{{S-start}}

{{Succession box

| before = Thomas Rhett Smith

| title = Mayor of Charleston, South Carolina

| years = 1815–1817

| after = John Geddes

}}

{{Succession box

| before = Daniel Stevens

| title = Mayor of Charleston, South Carolina

| years = 1820–1821

| after = James Hamilton Jr.

}}

{{S-end}}

{{Mayors of Charleston, South Carolina}}

{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Horry, Elias}}

Category:Mayors of Charleston, South Carolina

Category:1773 births

Category:1834 deaths

Category:South Carolina lawyers

Category:Members of the South Carolina House of Representatives

Category:19th-century American lawyers

Category:19th-century mayors of places in South Carolina

Category:18th-century members of the South Carolina General Assembly

Category:19th-century members of the South Carolina General Assembly