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'''Oliver Whitehead Catchings''' (Sept. 20, 1872 - June 14, 1916)<ref name="catchings">{{cite book |url=http://www.archive.org/stream/catchingshollida00catc/catchingshollida00catc_djvu.txt |title=The Catchings and Holliday Families |year=1927 |publisher=A. B. Caldwell |page=133 }}</ref> of Vicksburg, Mississippi, was the manager of the [[Virginia Glee Club]] during the [[Glee Club 1891-1892 season]].<ref name="catalog1892">{{cite book |url=http://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/view?docId=2005_Q4_3/uvaBook/tei/z000000165.xml;chunk.id=d23;toc.depth=1;toc.id=;brand=default;query=doubleday#1 |title=University of Virginia Catalog 1891-1892 |year=1892 |page=ix}}</ref> |
'''Oliver Whitehead Catchings''' (Sept. 20, 1872 - June 14, 1916)<ref name="catchings">{{cite book |url=http://www.archive.org/stream/catchingshollida00catc/catchingshollida00catc_djvu.txt |title=The Catchings and Holliday Families |year=1927 |publisher=A. B. Caldwell |page=133 }}</ref> of Vicksburg, Mississippi, was the manager of the [[Virginia Glee Club]] during the [[Glee Club 1891-1892 season]].<ref name="catalog1892">{{cite book |url=http://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/view?docId=2005_Q4_3/uvaBook/tei/z000000165.xml;chunk.id=d23;toc.depth=1;toc.id=;brand=default;query=doubleday#1 |title=University of Virginia Catalog 1891-1892 |year=1892 |page=ix}}</ref> |
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| − | At Virginia, he was a law student, captain of the football team,<ref name="football">{{cite web |url=http://www.lostlettermen.com/oliver_catchings-virginia-football-acc-p227672/ |title=Oliver W Catchings, Virginia Cavaliers |accessdate=2011-06-30}}</ref>, member of [[Phi Kappa Psi]] and [[Eli Banana]],<ref name="obit">{{cite book |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=zDc5AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA138&lpg=PA138&dq=%22oliver+w.+catchings%22&source=bl&ots=6ZqqgS0MV4&sig=WvhbMOFzKfDIDwhVlaB25pIk_q0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=tIhVUunEHLG34AOtz4GgDA&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAjgK#v=onepage&q=%22oliver%20w.%20catchings%22&f=false |title=The Catchings and Holliday Families |last=Catchings |first=Thomas Clendinen |last2=Torrey |first2=Mary Clendinen Catchings |last3=Churchill |first3=Charles Robert |year=1921 |pages=133ff}}</ref> and editor of both ''[[Corks and Curls]]'' and ''[[College Topics]].''<ref name="catchings" /> He completed law school at Virginia and practiced law in [[Washington, DC]] while his father, Thomas Clendinen Catchings, was in Congress, then returned with his father to Vicksburg to establish the practice of Catchings & Catchings. He was appointed judge of the 9th Mississippi District in 1905, <ref name="miss">{{cite book |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=rUwTAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA131&ots=tk1z4uRdrn&dq=%22oliver%20w.%20catchings%22&pg=PA131#v=onepage&q=%22oliver%20w.%20catchings%22&f=false |title=Mississippi: Contemporary Biography |pages=131–132 |editor=Dunbar Rowland |year=1907}}</ref> and died unexpectedly of heart disease in 1916. |
+ | At Virginia, he was a law student, captain and quarterback of the football team,<ref name="football">{{cite web |url=http://www.lostlettermen.com/oliver_catchings-virginia-football-acc-p227672/ |title=Oliver W Catchings, Virginia Cavaliers |accessdate=2011-06-30}}</ref>, member of [[Phi Kappa Psi]], the [[Z Society]] and [[Eli Banana]],<ref name="obit">{{cite book |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=zDc5AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA138&lpg=PA138&dq=%22oliver+w.+catchings%22&source=bl&ots=6ZqqgS0MV4&sig=WvhbMOFzKfDIDwhVlaB25pIk_q0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=tIhVUunEHLG34AOtz4GgDA&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAjgK#v=onepage&q=%22oliver%20w.%20catchings%22&f=false |title=The Catchings and Holliday Families |last=Catchings |first=Thomas Clendinen |last2=Torrey |first2=Mary Clendinen Catchings |last3=Churchill |first3=Charles Robert |year=1921 |pages=133ff}}</ref> and editor of both ''[[Corks and Curls]]'' and ''[[College Topics]].''<ref name="catchings" /> He completed law school at Virginia and practiced law in [[Washington, DC]] while his father, Thomas Clendinen Catchings, was in Congress, then returned with his father to Vicksburg to establish the practice of Catchings & Catchings. He was appointed judge of the 9th Mississippi District in 1905, <ref name="miss">{{cite book |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=rUwTAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA131&ots=tk1z4uRdrn&dq=%22oliver%20w.%20catchings%22&pg=PA131#v=onepage&q=%22oliver%20w.%20catchings%22&f=false |title=Mississippi: Contemporary Biography |pages=131–132 |editor=Dunbar Rowland |year=1907}}</ref> and died unexpectedly of heart disease in 1916. |
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Oliver Whitehead Catchings (Sept. 20, 1872 - June 14, 1916)[1] of Vicksburg, Mississippi, was the manager of the Virginia Glee Club during the Glee Club 1891-1892 season.[2]
At Virginia, he was a law student, captain and quarterback of the football team,[3], member of Phi Kappa Psi, the Z Society and Eli Banana,[4] and editor of both Corks and Curls and College Topics.[1] He completed law school at Virginia and practiced law in Washington, DC while his father, Thomas Clendinen Catchings, was in Congress, then returned with his father to Vicksburg to establish the practice of Catchings & Catchings. He was appointed judge of the 9th Mississippi District in 1905, [5] and died unexpectedly of heart disease in 1916.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Catchings and Holliday Families. A. B. Caldwell. 1927. p. 133. http://www.archive.org/stream/catchingshollida00catc/catchingshollida00catc_djvu.txt.
- ↑ University of Virginia Catalog 1891-1892. 1892. p. ix. http://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/view?docId=2005_Q4_3/uvaBook/tei/z000000165.xml;chunk.id=d23;toc.depth=1;toc.id=;brand=default;query=doubleday#1.
- ↑ "Oliver W Catchings, Virginia Cavaliers". http://www.lostlettermen.com/oliver_catchings-virginia-football-acc-p227672/. Retrieved 2011-06-30.
- ↑ Catchings, Thomas Clendinen; Torrey, Mary Clendinen Catchings; Churchill, Charles Robert (1921). The Catchings and Holliday Families. pp. 133ff. http://books.google.com/books?id=zDc5AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA138&lpg=PA138&dq=%22oliver+w.+catchings%22&source=bl&ots=6ZqqgS0MV4&sig=WvhbMOFzKfDIDwhVlaB25pIk_q0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=tIhVUunEHLG34AOtz4GgDA&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAjgK#v=onepage&q=%22oliver%20w.%20catchings%22&f=false.
- ↑ Dunbar Rowland, ed (1907). Mississippi: Contemporary Biography. pp. 131–132. http://books.google.com/books?id=rUwTAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA131&ots=tk1z4uRdrn&dq=%22oliver%20w.%20catchings%22&pg=PA131#v=onepage&q=%22oliver%20w.%20catchings%22&f=false.