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Charles Clinton Walsh

(1867-1943)
Texas

C.C. Walsh was born May 29, 1867, at Kirkwood, Illinois and attended high school in Monticello, Illinois. He was a teacher in public schools from 1886 to 1890. In 1893 he obtained an LL.B. from the University of Michigan, and was admitted to the Texas bar that same year. He practiced law at Gonzales until 1904, then entered the banking business. In 1925 he moved to Dallas to become Chairman of the Board and federal reserve agent of the Federal Reserve Bank's Eleventh District. He was a member of The Poetry Society of Texas and known as "poet Laureate of the Southwest." Walsh was a founder and trustee of Southern Methodist University. [Source: Vaida Stwart Montgomery (ed.), A Century with Texas Poets and Poetry 101 (Dallas: The Kaleidography Press, 1934); Florence Elberta Barns, Texas Writers of Today 452 (Dallas: Tardy Publishing Co., 1935)(Ann Arbor, Michigan: Gryphon Books, 1971)]

Charles Clinton Walsh
Handbook of Texas Online

Poetry

C.C. Walsh, Early Days on the Western Range: A Pastoral Narrative (Boston: Sherman, French & Co., 1917) [online text]

_________, The Old Quartette: Fond Memories of the Long Ago ...
([San Angelo, Texas]: Holcomb-Blanton printery, 1923)

Writings

C.C. Walsh, "Lookin' in"; a reminiscences by Uncle Reuben Brown on the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, held at Hot Springs, Arkansas, May, 1922 (San Angelo, Texas: Holcomb-Blanton Printery, 1922)

__________, Heavenly Mansions; Echoes of the Copeland-Brown Revival held in the First M.E. Church, South, at San Angelo, Texas, March, 1922 (San Angelo, Texas: Holcomb-Blanton Printery, 1922)

__________, The Passing of the Years: a reminiscence of the Critic Club on its twentieth anniversary, 1908-1928 ([Dallas, Texas]: Critic Club, 1928)

[The biographical entry in Vaida Stwart Montgomery (ed.), A Century with Texas Poets and Poetry 101 (Dallas: The Kaleidography Press, 1934) indicates the following publications: The Nester and the Tenderfoot (1918); America's Tribute to Great Britain (1918); How Uncle Sam Got Bill's Goat (1919). We find no reference to these works in the OCLC.]

Legal Writings

Charles Clinton Walsh, Partnership: being questions and answers on Bates, Lindley, Parsons: designed for use of law students (Chicago: Callaghan & Co., 1887)

_________________, The Student's Quiz Book, containing questions, answers and a history of the leading cases in Anson on contracts and Blackstone. As taught by the professors in the Michigan Law School (Chicago: Callaghan, 1892)

_________________, The Student's Quiz Book, containing questions, answers and a history of the leading cases in bailments and carriers, personal property, torts and domestic relations: as taught by the professors in the Michigan Law School (Chicago: Callaghan & Co., 1893)