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.
At an early age, Horton showed a decided histrionic talent. At the age of nine, she won the Peabody medal for elocution in the Atlanta schools, over competitors aged from eight to twenty-five years.[4]
In 1889, having completed a Partial Course at the Girls High School in Atlanta, she was graduated.[5] In that same year, she was placed in the College of Music of Cincinnati, where she established an extraordinary record in the history of the school, completing a four-year course in seven months. Prof. Virgil A. Pinkley, the master of elocution there, wrote of her that among the thousands whom he had known and personally worked with, he found no one who gave surer promise of histrionic greatness.[4]
Career
Her success as a parlor reader and as a teacher of elocution in the South was pronounced. Her classes were large, and she numbered among her pupils some who were themselves ambitious teachers. Her repertoire compassed a wide range of literature, from Marie Stuart and Rosalind to Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward's Madonna of the Tub and James Whitcomb Riley's baby-dialect rhymes. After the first year of teaching, Horton gave up her classes, but continued her elocutionary studies and gave frequent parlor readings.[4]
For several years she was on the editorial staff of The Atlanta Journal. Besides numerous articles in periodicals, most of them dealing with Southern historical characters and places, Horton published The Georgian Architecture of the Far South (1902). She made an exhaustive study of architectural types and furnished to the magazines many articles illustrated from photographic views which she took.[6] These articles and photographs appeared as the leading features of the three last volumes of The Georgian Period, a work on the colonial architecture of the U.S. published in twelve volumes by the American Architect and News Company, of Boston. Mrs. Horton has a novel almost finished which, though short, is said to be both original and clever. In addition to the pen name of "Mrs. Thaddeus Horton", she also wrote in the name of Corinne Horton.[7]
In 1909, she organized the Players' Club of Atlanta.[8] Horton was the first Recording Secretary of the Atlanta Woman's Club,[9] and also served as a member of the Managing Board of the Georgia Women's Press Club.[10]
Personal life
On June 17, 1896, she married Thaddeus E. Horton.[6] She was widowed two years later.[11] At the time of his death, he was the Albany, Georgia correspondent of The New York Times.[7]
On February 28, 1915, at Atlanta, she married Chauncey Smith,[12] of Atlanta and Cambridge, Massachusetts. She was widowed again in 1931.[11]
Following a long illness, Horton died at a private hospital in Atlanta, September 12, 1947.[11]
^ abAlderman, Edwin Anderson; Harris, Joel Chandler; Kent, Charles W.; Smith, Charles Alphonso; Knight, Lucian Lamar (1910). "HORTON, CORINNE STOCKER". Library of Southern Literature. 15. Martin and Hoyt Company: 208. Retrieved 4 May 2022. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^ abcHills, William Henry; Luce, Robert (1903). "Mrs. Thaddeus Horton". The Writer: A Monthly Magazine for Literary Workers. 16–18. Writer Publishing Company: 104–05.
^"Interest Grew Fast". The Atlanta Constitution. 22 July 1938. p. 8. Retrieved 4 May 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
^Harvard College (1780-) Class of 1888 (1920). "CHAUNCEY SMITH". 8. Secretary's Report. Rockwell and Churchill Press. Retrieved 4 May 2022.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^"The Jefferson Davis Museum". The Illustrated American. 19. Illustrated American Publishing Company: 264. 1896. Retrieved 4 May 2022. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^"Northern Veterans Making Southern Homes". The Illustrated American. 19. Illustrated American Publishing Company: 368–72. 1896. Retrieved 4 May 2022. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^"Lincoln Museum at Washington". The Illustrated American. 19. Illustrated American Publishing Company: 748. 1896. Retrieved 4 May 2022. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^ abArchitects, American Institute of (1904). "Publications". American Institute of Architects Quarterly Bulletin. 5. American Institute of Architects: 474, 568. Retrieved 4 May 2022. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^ ab"Index". House & Garden. 8. Condé Nast Publications: 9, 198, 245. 1905. Retrieved 4 May 2022. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^"Old Bullach Hall, Roswell, Georgia". Indoors and Out: The Homebuilders' Magazine. 1 (3). Rogers and Wise.: 153 1905. Retrieved 4 May 2022. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^Bailey, Liberty Hyde; Saylor, Henry Hodgman (1906). "Some Old Beds". Country Life in America. 11. Doubleday, Page & Company: 404. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
^ abcdHarris, Joel Chandler, ed. (1907). "By Mrs. Thaddeus Horton". Uncle Remus's Magazine. 1. Sunny South Publishing Company: 14, 18, 19. Retrieved 4 May 2022. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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