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JAMES C. LATHAM, physician, post office White Ash, was born near the center of Penn township, June 12, 1849, and is the son of Abraham (a gardener) and Margaret (Crumpton) Latham, who came from Lancashire, England, to Pennsylvania in 1838. The father took an active interest in politics, and espoused the cause of the republican party; he died in 1887, aged seventy-six years, a member of Beulah Presbyterian Church; his widow, aged seventy-four, resides in Penn township. Their children were Margaret, who died at the age of twelve years; James C.; Ellen (Moore), a resident of Elizabeth, N. J.; Rachel, widow of Rev. William W. Cunningham, Blairsville; Mary (Barker), for many years a missionary to India, and afterward among the Oneida Indians in the New York reservation, now in Blairsville, and Jane. Dr. Latham graduated in the spring of 1874 from the Jefferson Medical College, of Philadelphia, and at once began practice at White Ash. He bought property on high ground overlooking the village and Sandy Creek valley, and has made of it a very pleasant home. He is an elder in Beulah Presbyterian Church; in politics a republican. On Christmas day, 1878, he married Elvina, daughter of James Aber, of Penn township, and they have one son, James Leonidas, born May 1, 1883.