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Draft edit: Catherine Allen Latimer

Personal life
Catherine Bosley Allen was born in Nashville, TN, in 1896 to Minta Bosley and H. W. Allen. Although she and her family were African-American, Catherine was light-skinned and listed in the 1910 and 1930 censuses as "White." 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. She graduated from Brooklyn's Girls High School in 1916 and went on to study librarianship at Howard University, graduating in 1918. She was a fluent French speaker and could read German.

In 1921, she married Benton R. Latimer, who worked as an accountant for the United States Post Office.