Corinne R. Stocker[3] was born in Orangeburg, South Carolina, August 21, 1871, but Atlanta, Georgia, claimed her by adoption and education.

Horton's great-great-grandfather fought under Lafayette to sustain the independence of the American colonies.

[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.

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.