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First Name
Last Name
James Edwin LATHAM

James Edwin LATHAM[1]

Male Abt 1895 - 1919  (~ 24 years)

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  • Name James Edwin LATHAM 
    Born Abt 1895  Greensboro, Guildford, N Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Occupation Cotton merchant, real estate developer 
    Religion Presbyterian 
    Military Event US Army 
    Military Flag Y 
    Cause of Death Died of influenza while on a Troop Train - 1919 
    Died 1919  Greensboro, Guildford, N Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I15047  Main
    Last Modified 1 Nov 2009 

    Father James Edwin LATHAM,   b. 11 Sep 1866, Wayne County, N Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1946, Greensboro, Guildford, N Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 79 years) 
    Father John FISKE,   b. Abt 1580, S Elmham, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1633, S Elmham, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 53 years) 
    Family ID F4979  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • J.E. Latham was a very outstanding person. As a very young man he traded in real estate, cotton, tobacco, and other products common to the eastern part of N.C., primarily in New Bern and Goldsboro., where he probably met his future wife, Maude Moore, whose family ran a boarding house there. Having developed a very successful business in Goldsboro by the turn of the century, he was asked by the Cone family of Greensboro to relocate his business to Greensboro. He did so and developed J.E.Latham Company into the second largest cotton merchandising firm in the U.S. He held memberships in the New York Stock Exhange and the New York Cotton Exchange. He operated the first stock exchange office in Greensboro. He was a large stock holder and member of the Board of Jefferson Standard Life Insurance,. He developed real estate, operated a cotton gin,built the King Cotton Hotel, and operated several warehouses. He prefered to have family members as key employees and partners in certain of his interests. He lost a great deal of his fortune during the depression in 1930 and 1931, and retired because of ill health. At his death he left
      most of his estate to his wife and daughter, May Gordon Latham Kellenberger, who used much of it to the restoration of Tryon Palace in New Bern, N.C.

  • Sources 
    1. [S44] Orcutt_001 gedcom file, Robert Waddell.


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Updated 23 Dec 2023