 He graduated from Alcorn College (now Alcorn State University) and was attending that institution in 1872.He headed west, convinced that his education and will to succeed would help him reach his real potential, and ended up in Seattle where he worked as a political reporter for the "Seattle Post-Intelligencer".Horace found employment at the "Seattle Standard", the city’s first newspaper for African Americans, working at that paper until Its failure in 1893.