Horton, Louise, 1916-

Historian and author, Louise Horton (1916-2005) was born Louise Charlotte Walthall in Granbury, Texas. In 1938, she married Claude Wendell Horton (1915-2002), a professor of physics at the University of Texas at Austin, and the couple had two children, physicist C. Wendell Horton and Margaret Horton Morefield. Louise Horton graduated with a B. A. degree from Rice University in 1938. While living in Austin, she worked as an archivist at the Texas State Library and Archives Commission and published numerous research articles and book reviews on Texas and southern history. Her publications include Samuel Bell Maxey: A Biography (1974), In the Hills of Pennyroyal: A History of Allen County, Kentucky, from 1815 to 1880 (1975), and Houston: A Novel (1982).

From the guide to the Horton, Louise, papers 88-356; 93-093; 96-055., 1932-1995, (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin)

...