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         J. KIRK LATTA, the senior member of the firm of Latta & McElhinney, proprietors and publishers of the Morning Sun News, is a native of Bourbon County, Kan., where he was born Aug. 19, 1866. He is the eldest son of J. P. and Sophia (Passmore) Latta, who are both natives of Perry County, Ohio. They emigrated to Kansas in 1865, and after a residence of ten years there removed to Morning Sun, Iowa, where they have since continued to reside.

Our subject received a liberal education in the High School of Morning Sun, after which he learned the printer’s trade, at which he worked in various towns in Iowa and Illinois, until he assisted in establishing the News of this city.

On the 4th of October, 1888, Mr. Latta was united in marriage with Miss Eva Upson, a daughter of Horace Upson, of Morning Sun, whose sketch appears on another page of this work. In politics Mr. . . .

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. . . Latta has always been a Republican. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, is energetic and enterprising, and one of Morning Sun’s rising young business men.