Kermit Daugherty
Kermit Daugherty (January 13, 1904 -????) was an author, most notably for his book, "Out of the Red Brush".
Childhood
Kermit Daugherty was born in the heart of the Red Brush Country in Jackson, Ohio. His father's family were long-time natives of the Red Brush. Although he had no formal schooling, his father supplemented the meager returns from his farm by teaching school. It was here that Kermit grew up and learned to know and love the Red Brush and its people, and it was here that he would ride the twelve long miles to the high school (not the current Jackson High School), a one-room school, ungraded and with attendance optional. When he was fourteen, he went to work cutting corn, chopping wood, doing anything he could get to do. Going to school only when there was no work to be had. Somehow, he managed to save enough to go to the Athens Ohio University.
College & Young Adult
He has been studying and teaching ever since. After one semester at Ohio University, he had to go back to work again in the Red Brush. After that he came for another semester at the University in Columbus, and in 1953, was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Education from Rio Grande, Ohio. In the years between he has been an elementary school principal, high school principal, county superintendent of schools, and since 1946, Superintendent of Schools in Jackson, Ohio.
Adulthood & Notoriety
Married to his wife when she was sixteen, they are the parents of three grown children. "Out of the Red Brush" is his first novel, in fact his first fictional writing of any kind. It was written in long hand at free moments at night in his office, and then pecked out on the typewriter.
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