Background
Holliday, Carl was born on March 2, 1879 in Hanging Rock, Ohio, United States. Son of George Hayes and Lucy (Sheppard) Holliday.
Holliday, Carl was born on March 2, 1879 in Hanging Rock, Ohio, United States. Son of George Hayes and Lucy (Sheppard) Holliday.
Bachelor of Science, University of Tennessee, 1901, Master of Arts, 1903. Post-graduate studies University of Chicago and University of Virginia. Doctor of Letters, Campbell College, 1915.
Doctor of Civil Law, Chicago College of Law, 1920. Doctor of Philosophy, American U., 1922.
Teacher public and private schools in North Carolina and Tennessee, 5 years. Professor of English, Alabama State Normal College, 1903-1906. Instructor English and lecturer on Southern literature, University of Virginia, 1906-1907.
Professor of English, Cox College, Atlanta, Georgia., 1907-1908, Southwestern Presbyterian U., 1908-1910, Vanderbilt University, 1910-1912. Associate editor American Library of Reference, Chicago, 1913. Professor of English, director journalism department, director bureau public information, University of Montana, 1913-1917.
Head of English department and director university extension department, 1917-1918, dean College of Arts and Sciences, 1918-1929, University of Toledo. Professor of English, California State College, San Jose, since 1929, pastor San Jose Unitarian church, 1929-1930. Field secretary Young Men’s Christian Association, Jacksonville, Florida, during Spanish-American War.
Editorial director education department Young Men’s Christian Association in France, 1918. D.A.R. prize for treatise in Southern History, 1903. Colonial Dames prize for treatise on Colonial Virginia, 1906.
Author: Grammar of Present-Day English, 1919. Woman’s Life in Colonial Days, 1921. Business English, 1921.
Drill Book in English Grammar, 1921. Old “Professor” Dickson and Other Poems, 1923. I Sat By the Gate Beautiful (novel), 1925.
The Dawn of Literature, 1931. The Old Man of the Woods, 1932. Peeps through Colonial Windows, 1936.
Also others out of print. Associate editor The Westerner, 1929-1931. Editor of A Year’s Harvest, Volumes I and II, 1932-1933.
Address: San Jose, California.
Married Winifred May Hocking, August 20, 1901.