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ROBERT M. LATTA
Robert M. Latta
has spent his entire life in the Golden state and is well known to many of the
citizens of Nevada County. He is now
successfully engaged in business in Nevada City as the proprietor of a well
equipped livery and feed stable. He was
born in the county which is still his home, on the 8th of September,
1868, and is the youngest of the five children of Robert W. and Sarah A.
(Darling) Latta.
The father, a native of Ohio, came to California in 1850 and for many
years was connected with the stage business, driving the stage on the
Washington route. His death occurred on
the 11th of November, 1877, and his wife, a native of Michigan, was
one of the first teachers in Nevada County and for a number of years was thus
connected with the educational interests of this locality. Her death occurred on the 2nd of
October, 1888.
Robert M. Latta
obtained his education in the public schools near his home, spent his boyhood
upon his father’s farm, early becoming familiar with all the duties and labors
that fall to the lot of the agriculturist.
He also spent considerable time in Yuba and San Joaquin counties, but in
1896 returned to Nevada County and established his present livery and feed
stable at the foot of Broad Street, near Plaza.
He is prepared to furnish stylish turnouts at reasonable rates and his
energy and earnest desire to please have secured to him a liberal
patronage. While living in Yuba County
he served as a deputy sheriff, but has never been an office seeker, preferring
to devote his energies to his business interests.
Mr. Latta
was united in marriage, in Yuba County, February 2, 1888, to Miss Mary Stineman, a native of California and a daughter of John Stineman, a pioneer of California in 1850, and one of the
Reese River victims. He is still living,
making his home at Wheatland. The
marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Latta has been blessed with
four children, who are yet living:
Esther, Wallace, Oscar and Kenneth; and one daughter who died in
1898. Mr. Latta
affiliates with the Independent Order of Foresters, of which he is now the
financial secretary, and with the Woodmen of the World and the Native Sons of
the Golden West.
Transcribed by
Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
“A Volume of Memoirs and Genealogy of Representative Citizens of Northern
California”, Pages 377-378. Chicago Standard Genealogical Publishing Co. 1901.
© 2010
Gerald Iaquinta.
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