[1] His wife was Emily Thompson, also a native of the Kentucky from one of the oldest families of the county, in which she was born.
He studied law in Nicholasville, Kentucky under the direction of W. R. Welchunder, a leading lawyer in the area.
President Grover Cleveland appointed him as associate justice of the Supreme Court of Wyoming Territory in 1886.
He served four years until when he retired and resumed the active practice of law at Evanston, Wyo.
where he remained until 1896, In 1894 Governor John Eugene Osborne appointed Corn to fill Gibson Clark's vacancy from 1894 to 1895.