Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 703
JAMES M. LATTA

James M. LATTA, who has been a resident of Harrison County for a quarter of a century, and who is now a resident of section 15, Calhoun Township, forms the subject of this sketch.

He was born in Crawford County, Pa., September 22, 1834, and is the son of John and Mary (MCCONAHEY) LATTA. The father was of Scotch ancestry, born in 1801, and had a family of four daughters and three sons, of whom our subject was the oldest child. When he was about ten years of age his parents emigrated to Carroll County, Ohio, and a year and a half later to Iowa. They first located at Des Moines and drifted about the State, living in Washington, Monroe, Page, Mills and Harrison Counties. From Page County they moved to Cass County, Neb., then moved back to Iowa, and subsequently to Washington County, Neb., where the father died, October 27, 1884. The mother is still living at the advanced age of eighty-eight. When in Cass County, Neb., our subject in the autumn of 1862, enlisted in Company B, Twenty-ninth Iowa Infantry, and served until June 17, 1865, receiving his discharge at Davenport, Iowa, June 17, 1865. He at once came to Mills County, Iowa, and from there to Harrison County as above related.

November 16, 1867, just after he returned from the war, he married Anna J. KENDALL, a native of Illinois, born February 17, 1837. She was the oldest of a family of nine children, born to William W. and Martha (MCFARLAND) KENDALL, who were of Scotch descent.

Mr. and Mrs. LATTA are the parents of six children, as follows: William W., James Harry, John C., Walter L., Frank F. and Anna P.

Politically, our subject is a firm supporter of the Republican party, "voting as he shot!" Both he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church, and he is a member of Fuller Post, G. A. R. at Logan.

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