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Octavius Valentine Catto (February 22, 1839 – October 10, 1871) was an American educator, intellectual, and civil rights activist. He became principal of male students at the Institute for Colored Youth, where he had also been educated.
After LeCount passed the teaching exam, becoming the first black woman in Philadelphia to do so, [6] she began teaching at the Ohio Street School (later renamed the Octavius V. Catto School). She became principal around 1868, making her the second black female principal in Philadelphia. [ 4 ]
Harry Catto (1865–1912), American Negro league baseball outfielder; Henry E. Catto Jr. (1930–2011), American businessman and ambassador; Jamie Catto (born 1968), British singer/songwriter; Jeremy Catto (1939–2018), British historian; Malcolm Catto, English drummer and record producer; Max Catto (1907–1992), English playwright and novelist
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Octavius Catto (1839–1871) was born in South Carolina and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [2] He protested to desegregate Philadelphia's trolley system, recruited African Americans to join the Union Army during the American Civil War, and campaigned for Pennsylvania to ratify the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which banned voting discrimination based on race. [3]
Jessica Hobby Catto was a noted conservationist and journalist who wrote a blog for the Huffington Post on conservation, the media, and political issues right up until her death in 2009. [7] Together the Cattos had four children. Henry Catto died at his home in San Antonio, Texas, on December 18, 2011. [8]