Katharine Brush
Katharine Louise Ingham Brush
- Nickname: Casey
- Nickname: Kay
American
Katharine Brush was a notable American sports journalist and fiction author. - AsNotedIn
Lineage
- Father Charles Samuel Ingham
- Mother Clara Louise Northrop Ingham
Katharine Brush was a notable American sports journalist and fiction author. - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1903/08/15 | Katharine is born, the daughter of Charles Samuel and Clara L Northrup Ingham, in the home of her maternal grandparents, D Ward and Mary Northrop, at 174 (now 154) Church Street in Middletown, Conn. | Born | D Ward Northrop House, Wesleyan U | Middletown | |||
| 1914/00/00 | Casey Ingham entertains the boys at Dummer, enjoying her role as the only girl on the campus, dancing and making fudge for young visitors. | Home | Mansion House at Governor's Academy | Newbury | |||
| 1915/09/00 | Casey enters Centenary Collegiate Ins. She will become a cutup, hellion and daredevil, often reprimanded, punished and suspended for a fortnight. She plays field hockey, earns good marks in English and writes essays for classmates at a penny a page. | Education | Centenary Collegiate Institute | Hackettstown | |||
| 1920/00/00 | Katharine Ingham marries Thomas Stewart Brush at the headmaster's manse at Dummer with a matron of honor and four bridesmaids. then takes a honeymoon motor trip to her new home in East Liverpool, Ohio. | Bride | Mansion House at Governor's Academy | Newbury | |||
| 1921/00/00 | By 1922, Casey Brush buys a house on Orchard Grove Ave which she begins decorating and refurnishing. | Home | Katharine and Thomas Brush Residence | East Liverpool | |||
| 1922/00/00 | Katharine Brush gives birth to a son, Thomas B Brush Jr. | Mother | |||||
| 1925/00/00 | The Brush family are mailed copies of the local Ku Klux Klan weekly with scathing and menacing comments. Katharine will later say its "all part of the nightmare that life in East Liverpool had become." Tom's newspaper, The Review, was critical of the KKK. | Life | Katharine and Thomas Brush Residence | East Liverpool | |||
| 1925/05/00 | "Glitter" by Katharine Brush is published by College Humor magazine. | Author | Glitter (book) | ||||
| 1925/09/11 | At the Million Dollar Pier in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Katharine Brush covers the fifth Miss America pageant. | Work | Playground Pier | Atlantic City, NJ | |||
| 1925/10/00 | Katharine Brush is assigned by the Brush-Moore Newspapers to write color articles and to cover the woman's angle of the World Series between Pittsburgh and Washington. | Work | |||||
| 1925/10/25 | At the beginning of a cold and rainy World Series Game 7, Casey Brush judges the game to be called after the second inning and leaves Forbes Field to go downtown for some shopping. | Work | Forbes Field Outfield Wall | Pittsburgh | |||
| 1925/10/25 | Casey Brush buys a coffee table for her living room at the downtown Joseph Horne's department store. | Life | Joseph Horne Building | Pittsburgh | |||
| 1925/10/25 | Casey Brush returns to Oakland and finds crowds outside Forbes Field. Realizing the game is still on, she tries to get in through the gates. A guard keeps her out due to the stampede of fans that is expected to pour out soon. A huge roar proves him right. | Work | Forbes Field Outfield Wall | Pittsburgh | |||
| 1925/10/26 | Katharine Brush's Game 7 World Series article is on how the Pirates' players and wives plan to spend their vacations. | Work | |||||
| 1926/09/23 | Katharine Brush reports on the world's heavyweight title fight between defending champion Jack Dempsey and challenger Gene Tunney at the Sesquicentennial Municipal Stadium (lost) in Philadelphia before a crowd of over 120,000 people. | Work | |||||
| 1927/09/00 | "Night Club" by Katharine Brush is published in Harper's. | Author | Night Club (short story) | ||||
| 1928/03/00 | On the way home from spending the winter in Tampa, Florida, where Tommy Brush was reporting on baseball spring training, Kay begins a short story about a sports writer which will eventually became the novel, "Young Man of Manhattan." | Author | Young Man of Manhattan (book) | ||||
| 1929/00/00 | "The Mother Has the Custody" by Katharine Brush is included in her short story collection "Night Club". | Author | The Mother Has the Custody (short story) | ||||
| 1929/03/16 | "Him and Her" by Katharine Brush is published in Collier's Weekly. | Author | Him and Her (short story) | ||||
| 1929/07/00 | "Night Club" with ten other short stories by Katharine Brush is published in hardcover. | Author | Night Club and Other Stories (short story collection) | ||||
| 1929/10/00 | Katharine Brush marries Hubert "Bob" Charles Winans, the European representative of a Wall St investment firm. | Bride | |||||
| 1929/10/23 | After spending two weeks on a driving tour of Germany, Belgium and Switzerland, Hubert and Kay arrive in Paris the day before the catastrophic stock market crash. | Life | |||||
| 1929/11/00 | Upon learning of the collapse of the American stock market, Hubert and Kay return to New York on the first ship available. Since their new home is not ready, they will spend the next two months in a hotel. | Life | |||||
| 1929/12/00 | Kay and Bob move into their apartment with the painters and carpenters still working. Lacking money to buy much furniture, they had two chairs to sit in the 30 by 40 foot living room. | Home | No 322 East 57th Street, NYC | New York City | |||
| 1930/00/00 | Katharine Brush receives the O Henry Award for Best Short Short of 1929 for "Him and Her". | Author | Him and Her (short story) | ||||
| 1930/00/00 | "Young Man of Manhattan" by Katharine Brush is published by Farrar and Rinehart, Murray Hill, New York City. The book jacket was created by Edgar Franklin Wittmack. | Author | Young Man of Manhattan (book) | ||||
| 1930/01/00 | Bob Winans loses his job the first of the year when his firm closes its foreign bond operations. | Life | |||||
| 1930/09/00 | "Good Wednesday" by Katharine Brush is published in Harper's. | Author | Good Wednesday (short story) | ||||
| 1931/00/00 | "Red-Headed Woman" by Katharine Brush is published by Farrar and Rinehart, New York. | Author | Red-Headed Woman (book) | ||||
| 1932/00/00 | Katharine Brush buys an old house on Saybrook Road, has it moved back from the road and builds a Laurel Cottage. Built as a writers retreat, the one-bedroom cottage sits atop a promontory overlooking the Connecticut River. | Home | Katharine Brush Residence, Haddam | Haddam, CT | |||
| 1932/00/00 | Katharine Brush is named a Best Short Story writer, by the O Henry Memorial Committee. | Author | |||||
| 1935/06/03 | The Campbell, Duane, INGHAM and Taney are launched and christened together, INGHAM is sponsored by Katherine Ingham Brush. | Dignitary | INGHAM (USCGC) | Key West | |||
| 1940/00/00 | "This Is On Me" by Katharine Brush is published by Farrar and Rinehart, New York. | Author | This Is On Me (book) | ||||
| 1940/06/00 | Young Tom Brush graduates from The Loomis Institute, a boarding school in Windsor, Connecticut. | Mother | Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor | Windsor, CT | |||
| 1941/07/16 | The NY Times reports: RENO, Nev, July 15 - Katharine Ingham Brush Winans, who writes fiction under the name Katharine Brush, filed a divorce suit today against Charles Hubert Winans, charging cruelty. | Life | |||||
| 1946/03/16 | "Birthday Party" by Katharine Brush is published in The New Yorker. | Author | Birthday Party (short story) | ||||
| 1952/06/10 | After surviving an operation for the removal of a brain tumor, Katharine Brush dies at St Luke's Hospital in NYC. Cremated at New York's Ferncliff, her ashes are buried next to her parents, and her brother Travis in Riverside Cemetery in Old Saybrook, CT. | Died |
13 Creative Works by Katharine Brush »
| Title | Type | Association | Y/M/D | Moniker |
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| Title | Type | Association | Y/M/D | Moniker |
| Glitter (book) | Author | Novel | 1925/05/00 | |
| Night Club (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1927/09/00 |
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| The Mother Has the Custody (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1929/00/00 | |
| Him and Her (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1929/03/16 |
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| Night Club and Other Stories (short story collection) | Author | Short Story Collection | 1929/07/00 | |
| Young Man of Manhattan (book) | Author | Novel | 1930/00/00 | |
| Good Wednesday (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1930/09/00 | |
| Red-Headed Woman (book) | Author | Novel | 1931/00/00 |
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| Football Girl (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1931/10/00 | |
| This Is On Me (book) | Author | Memoir | 1940/00/00 | |
| Lounge-Car Blonde (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1943/03/27 | |
| Birthday Party (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1946/03/16 |
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| A Drink Is Always a Good Idea (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1948/12/04 |
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