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Author: N. K. Rogers
CHAS. H. LA HATTE

Data furnished by M. T. LaHatte of Atlanta, Ga.

    Chas. H. LaHatte born in Brooklyn, King's County, N. Y., Feb. 8, 1796, came
south in 1834. His father, a Baptist minister, was a surgeon in the British navy
during the Revolutionary War. This French German name has been spelled La Haute
and LaHaye.

   Records show Prof. Chas. H. LaHatte as one of the three teachers in Columbus,
Ga. in 1837. His wife had died in N. Y. where, he left their son, who grew to
manhood and fought in the Union Army while his four half brothers were fighting
in behalf of the Confederacy.

    For Prof. LaHatte later married Miss Elizabeth Windham from Edgefield Dist.
S. C. and of their eleven children, four sons were in the southern army, viz.:
Chas. B. in Artillery, stationed in Savannah, Ga.; Albert Henry in Army of
Northern Va., wounded four times from which he did not recover until about
twenty years after the war ended; (Dr.) Julius Holton and Sidney M. in Tennessee
Army, the latter captured and imprisoned at Camp Chase.

    Macon Thornton LaHatte b. 1855, m. Miss Mary Milner, Nov. 11, 1879 in
Fayette Co., Ga.; their son Milner Thornton LaHatte m. Miss Meta Man of Atlanta,
whose children are Amelia Mary and Milner Thornton, Jr. Prof. LaHatte had six
daughters whose names follow:

    Adelia m. William Davis (son of Col. Wm; Davis who represented Chattahoochee
Co. in the Secession Convention). Alida m. James B. Caraway; Fanny Narcissa is
living in Atlanta (1932). Florence and Alice died in 1881. Minnie m. Chas. P.
Bedinfield of Atlanta.

    Prof. Chas. H. LaHatte whose ability as a teacher made him and his family so
well known in this section of Ga. (he also taught in Ala. for a few years)
graduated at Hamilton College in New York.
(130)

    His proficiency as a teacher of the languages was the distinguishing feature
of his work in the school room and is still spoken of by members of those
families whose relatives were students during the earliest years of
Chattahoochee's. history. He taught English, French, Latin, and Greek and could
have taught the German language also. After many years spent in adding to the
culture and refinement of Chattahoochee's citizenry, his ashes repose in its
soil—at Harmony Cemetery (in Fort Benning reservation) where Kingville Academy
(named in honor of King Co. N. Y.) was situated. King's P. O. was nearby at the
home of Jas. C. Coleman who donated the land for the school and churches there.

    Mr. M. T.LaHatte recalls the blacksmith shop of Wylie Canon; its fascination
for a small boy—and seeing there the model of the first gatling gun ever known.
It had eighteen barrels with trip hammer, but the war ended before it was ready
for use. He also recalls names of many families who remained in the neighborhood
after the war had made such a drastic change in the personnel and economic
conditions of the country. The descendants of these families continued to form
the citizenry of that part of the county until another drastic change in 1918
removed them to other communities, where the traditions of past generations are
preserved.

    Among letters and clippings of interest preserved by the Van Horn family,
the following was found:

Professor Chas. H. LaHatte.

    The subject of this brief notice was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1796 and
died July 22, 1872, age 76 years. He arrived in Columbus in 1837, and since that
time has been teaching school in the counties of Muscogee and Chattahoochee,
excepting a brief interval when he taught in our neighboring state, Alabama.

    Having been long identified with the South, he took a lively interest in
everything that pertained to her welfare. No truer son was ever born to her soil.


Additional Comments:
From:

HISTORY OF CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTY, GEORGIA
By N. K. Rogers

Dedicated to

KASIHITA CHAPTER U. D. C.

and all worthy descendants of the County's first settlers.

Copyright 1933

by N. K. ROGERS

PRINTED   BY
COLUMBUS  OFFICE  SUPPLY CO. COLUMBUS, GA.




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