Corinne Stocker Horton

Corinne Stocker Horton
"A Woman of the Century"
BornCorinne R. Stocker
August 21, 1871
Orangeburg, South Carolina, U.S.
DiedSeptember 12, 1947 (aged 76)
Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Nickname"Mrs. Thaddeus Horton"
Occupation
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
Alma materCollege of Music of Cincinnati
SubjectSouthern historical people and places
Spouse
  • Thaddeus E. Horton
    (m. 1896; died 1898)
  • Chauncey Smith
    (m. 1915; died 1931)

Corinne Stocker Horton (née, Stocker; after first marriage, Horton; after second marriage, Smith; pen name, Mrs. Thaddeus Horton; August 21, 1871 – September 12, 1947) was an American elocutionist, journalist, newspaper editor, and clubwoman. For years, she was the society editor of The Atlanta Journal, but withdrew from the staff after her first marriage. She continued to write for magazines,[1] but was also a successful fiction writer.[2] Horton was affiliated with the Players' Club of Atlanta, the Atlanta Woman's Club, and the Georgia Women's Press Club.

  1. ^ Rutherford, Mildred Lewis (1906). The South in History and Literature: A Hand-book of Southern Authors, from the Settlement of Jamestown, 1607, to Living Writers (Public domain ed.). Franklin-Turner Company. p. 847. Retrieved 4 May 2022. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. ^ Knight, Lucian Lamar (1908). Reminiscences of Famous Georgians: Embracing Episodes and Incidents in the Lives of the Great Men of the State. Vol. 2. Franklin-Turner. p. 507. Retrieved 4 May 2022. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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