INDEX TO
BIOGRAPHIES
ALFRED LATHAM
| Alfred Latham of Pleasanton was one of the notably successful men who started as a clerk in a store at Mound City in 1870, then drove all over the country with a peddler's wagon drawn by a span of mules selling tinware and other household necessities taking farm produce in payment, afterwards estab-lishing a produce house in Mound City which outgrew the town and he moved to Pleasanton to get better shipping facilities, organizing his business under the name of the Latham Commission Company which had probably a hundred branch houses and shipping stations scattered over Kansas and Missouri. He had reached the ripe age of nearly eighty-two years when on a business trip to New York City on October 28, 1927, he was found dead in his bed in his hotel room, and Linn County records the loss of a fine citizen. He was married November 26, 1874, to Frances L. Bartholomew, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Bartholomew who were early pioneers in Mound City. To the Lathams were born a daughter, now Mrs. L. A. Holbert of Kansas City; J. W. Latham of Pleasanton; George Latham who died about 1926 at Ottawa; Mrs. Harvey Lincoln of Pleasanton; and Mildred who died in 1908 at Mound City. In writing his obituary some friend said: "Know you today, that a great man and prince has fallen."
(History of Linnn County, by William Ansel Mitchell, 1928, Page 359) |