From the pamphlet entitled “The Trial of Frank Kelly, for the Assassination and Murder of Octavius V. Catto, on October 10, 1871.” [call # Wk* .799 v. 1].  

Catto was an educator and civil rights activist who was murdered while trying to vote.  Catto was the principal at the Institute for Colored Youth, later renamed Cheyney University of Pennsylvania.