Lived at 306 Bridge St.

Major, 5th Regiment 1862 - on Gov. Curtain staff.. Col 38th Penna Militia (Iron Reg.) 1863. School director - Catasauqua 18 yr. Helped establish Evang. Lutheran Church

Melchior Hay Horn, Jr., spent his boyhood days in Easton, where he attended the Van de Veer school. As a young man he was employed as clerk in the general store of Winter and Yohe; and later served in the store of Mr. Burk. He tried the store business for himself but soon determined to relinquish the trade and take up his new profession as a surveyor. His talents as an accountant and financier having been recognized, he was offered the position of teller in Farmer's and Mechanic's Bank, now the First National Bank of Easton, Pa.

In 1857 he was offered the position of Cashier in the newly organized Bank of Catasauqua, which he accepted, and served with signal success until he retired in 1888. From now on he served as President of the Bank until his death in 1890. During the Civil War he served on the staff of Governor Curtin and aided in forwarding troops to the front. In 1862 he was elected Major of the Fifth Penna. Militia; and in 1863 he was chosen Colonel of the Thirty-eighth Penna. Militia, which Regiment was sworn into the United States service.

The Colonel took a lasting interest in the affairs of his home town. A year after his arrival in Catasauqua he was elected a member of the School Board, where he was kept by repeated re-elections for eighteen years, when he declined another re-election. He was peculiarly well qualified for this position through his early training in Easton, where school matters had been well advanced. He served his town as Burgess for one term. His opinions were heeded and many of his propositions still uphold and enhance life and property in Catasauqua. He was largely instrumental in the establishment of the English Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity, and served as Superintendent of her Sunday School for many years.