Draft edit: Catherine Allen Latimer
Personal life edit
Catherine Bosley Allen was born in Nashville, TN, in 1896 to Minta Bosley and H. W. Allen.[1] Although she and her family were African-American, Catherine was light-skinned and listed in the 1910 and 1930 censuses as "White."[2] Her family moved to Brooklyn, NY, when she was a child, and she continued to live in New York for most of her adult life.[2] She graduated from Brooklyn's Girls High School in 1916 and went on to study librarianship at Howard University, graduating in 1918.[2] She was a fluent French speaker and could read German.[1]
In 1921, she married Benton R. Latimer, who worked as an accountant for the United States Post Office.[2]