Alice Lee Moqué

Alice Lee Moqué
Born	Alice Lee Hornor (1861-10-20)October 20, 1861 New Orleans, Louisiana
Died	July 16, 1919(1919-07-16) (aged 57) Washington, D.C.
Nationality	U.S.A.
Other names	Alice Lee Snelling
Occupation	Writer, Traveler, Suffragist
Known for	Delightful Dalmatia
Spouse(s)	Walter Comonfort Snelling m.(1879–d. 1893) John Oliver Moqué m.(1894–1919)

Alice Lee Moqué (née Hornor; formerly Snelling; October 20, 1861 – July 16, 1919), was an American traveler, writer, newspaper correspondent, photographer, and suffragist. She was also one of the first women cyclists in America.

In addition to newspaper articles on a wide variety of topics, and a novel, she published Delightful Dalmatia (1914), an account of traveling through Dalmatia prior to World War I. She was elected to the League of American Pen Women in 1915.

Alice Lee Horner was a daughter of Judge Charles West Hornor, a lawyer and abolitionist from a Philadelphia Quaker family, and his second wife Sarah Elizabeth Smith from Augusta, Georgia. Alice Lee Horner was born in New Orleans, Louisiana during the American Civil War.

There is some confusion over Alice Lee Hornor's birth year. Who's Who for 1916 gives her birth date as October 20, 1865. However, Library of congress authority records list her birth year as 1863, and the Congressional Cemetery, where her ashes were buried, reports 1861.

The politics of the civil war made it difficult for abolitionists like Judge Hornor to practice in the south. His original legal partner in Louisiana, Thomas J. Durant, moved to Washington, D.C. around 1848. After the war, in 1865, the Hornor family also moved, first to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and later to Washington, D.C. There Judge Hornor reestablished his practice with Durant and served on the United States Supreme Court. Alice attended public school at Washington High School in Georgetown.

Alice's first marriage occurred "while in her teens and still a school girl." She married Walter Comonfort Snelling (1859–1893) on October 20, 1879 in Washington, D.C. Snelling was an inventor who patented an adding machine. They had at least three sons, chemist Walter Otheman Snelling (1880–1965), Henry H. Snelling, and Charles Hornor Snelling (1887–1907).