CHARLES KELLOGG LATHAM Lawyer; born, in Ontario Co., N.Y., May 2, 1847; son of Warren Cary and Sarah (Young) Latham; educated in common schools; Canandaigua (N.Y.) Academy; University of Michigan, degree of B.A., 1871, LL.B., 1872, M.A., 1875; married three times, present wife was youngest daughter of the late Hon. Levi T. Griffin of Detroit. Began practice, 1875, at Eaton Rapids, Mich., in office of John M. Corbin; later taught Latin and Greek in Fort Wayne (Ind) high school and came to Detroit, 1879, since which time he has continuously engaged in practice of law. Director A.S. Drake Cattle Co., Delray branch of Peoples’ State Bank, George C. Wetherbee & Co., Sibley Quarry Co., National Soap Co., and interested in other business enterprises. Formerly member of the Light Guards (state troops) and served on Park and Boulevard Commission, under appointment of Mayor Pingree. Member Detroit Bar Association, Detroit Board of Commerce. Democrat. Presbyterian. Odd Fellow and Mason; member of Detroit Commandery and Scottish Rite. Owns and personally manages two-hundred acre farm at Birmingham, Mich.; on which he keeps a herd of about fifty registered jersey cattle. Office: 408 Moffat Bldg. Residence: Latham Farm, Birmingham, Mich. The Book of Detroiters by Albert Nelson Marquis 1908

CHARLES KELLOGG LATHAM Charles Kellogg Latham was born May 2, 1847, near Canandaigua, in the State of New York. The family of Latham settled at Bridgewater, Massachusetts, with the first English settlers after the landing of the Pilgrims on Plymouth Rock. Members of the family, both in England and America, have ranked high as scholars, authors and statesmen. The name is so uncommon that those bearing it generally have little difficulty in tracing their lineage to a common ancestry. The subject of our sketch was prepared for college at Canandaigua Academy. He taught school in one of the country districts at the age of seventeen; was principal of one of the Canandaigua village schools at nineteen and was employed as one of the teachers of the Academy at twenty. He entered the University of Michigan in the sophomore class in September, 1868, and was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, in 1871. The University has since conferred upon him the degrees of Bachelor of Laws and Master of Arts, the former in 1872 and the latter in 1876. He was superintendent of schools for the city of Charlotte, Eaton county, for two years, from September, 1872, to July, 1874. He began the practice of law in Charlotte in July, 1874, and continued it until September, 1876. when he was chosen principal of the high school of Fort Wayne. Indiana, where he remained until July. 1879. He then located in Detroit and since that time has been engaged continuously in the practice of law. While attending to a remunerative law practice he has been interested in several successful business enterprises, among which are lumbering, manufacturing and banking. He is at this time (1896) vice president and attorney of the Central Savings Bank of Detroit and president of the board of commissioners of parks and boulevards of the city. Having been appointed a commissioner in 1893 by Mayor Pinegree, for the term of four years, his appointment was immediately confirmed by the common council. Politically Mr. Latham has always been associated with the Democratic party. He holds it to be the duty of every citizen to exercise the elective franchise, but has always steadily refused to become interested in politics as a candidate for office. In 1869, while away from home at college, the people of his native town of Gorham. Ontario county. New York, elected him its collector of taxes, and neighboring farmers furnished the required bond of $32,000. This is the only political office to which he was ever elected. In his whole career he has maintained the reputation of being conscientious, painstaking, and unflinchingly honest and upright in all of his dealings, lie has won an honorable position at the Bar, where he is the recipient of the esteem and good will of his brother lawyers. His clientage represents large moneyed interests and his practice has taken him into many circuits outside of Detroit, as well as into other States and the Federal Courts. He is strongly averse to anything that partakes of advertisement of himself or display in his professional work. In the prime of life, sound and strong of body, there is for him the assurance of many years of continued prosperity, lie has been married twice: First, in 1873, to Mary K. Bodine. who died in 1877, and second, in 1886, to Frances A. Wormer, his present wife. He has one son, born of his first wife, Everett Bodine Latham. Bench and bar of Michigan: a volume of history and biography edited by George Irving Reed 1897