Talk:Oliver Kuhn/Archives/2016

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Removed per WP:COATRACK; article is about Oliver Kuhn, not about his extended family. Baffle gab1978 (talk) 21:49, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

Wall
Her father Frank Wall was a steamboat engineer on the Mississippi River born in County Londonderry, Ireland and the namesake of Wall, Pennsylvania. Frank also traversed the Chattahoochee and Indian Rivers of Georgia during the Seminole Wars. His wife was from Columbus, Georgia; she was born in County Tyrone.

Katherine's sister Mary Charlotte Wall married Benedict Francis Simms. The pair were the great grandparents of former New York Giants quarterback and Super Bowl XXI MVP Phil Simms. Benedict's first cousin was the grandfather of former Kentucky Wildcats back John Simms "Shipwreck" Kelly.

Kuhn
Doc Kuhn's paternal grandparents were born in the Kingdom of Württemberg in modern day Germany. His grandfather was a brewer in Nashville. Doc's childhood home is now called the Frassati House, the building on Vanderbilt's campus for the 'University Catholic'. Radio and television announcer Dick Dudley (birth name Casper Bernard Kuhn, Jr.) was his nephew.

Doc's father Ferdinand graduated from Notre Dame in 1883. He was a member of the school's rowing team. Ferdinand became a shoe merchant in 1903. He and two other men, E. P. Cooper and P. J. Geary, started the business of Kuhn, Cooper, & Geary, which earned a reputation as the premiere footwear store in downtown Nashville. Ferdinand was the president of the 1908 Southern Association champion Nashville Vols, preceded in that capacity by Bradley Walker, and considered "the Father of the Knights of Columbus in the South."

Michigan coach Fielding Yost and Vanderbilt coach Dan McGugin were brothers-in-law, and McGugin had played for Yost.