Bio: C. C. Chatham, Desoto Parish Louisiana
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
Submitted by Gaytha Carver Thompson
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C. C. Chatham, editor of the Logansport News and postmaster of the town, was
born in Abbeville, District, S. C., October 10, 1852, being a son of John W..
and N. S. Chatham, who were also natives of the Palmetto State. The mother
died when the subject of this sketch was an infant, and her husband afterward
moved to Texas, in 1857, settling in Harrison County. He was a school teacher
while in South Carolina, and continued to follow this calling until the
opening of the war. After the cessation of hostilities he embarked in the
mercantile business at Carthage, Tex., but recently retired from the active
duties of life. After the death of his first wife he married again. He was a
member of the Baptist Church, a Mason, and during the war served as an officer
in a Texas regiment, a considerable portion of the time being spent in the
commissary department west of the Mississippi River. 

C. C. Chatham graduated from the University of Kentucky, in 1873, and after
this institution he spent two years in travel-the drug firm of Jacob Merrill,
of St. Louis, hereafter to West Texas, where he was engaged in the stock
business for six years. At the end of this time he returned to Carthage, and
after remaining near there until 1884, he went to Keactchie and taught in the
college of that place two years, at the end of which time he came to
Logansport, and was recently appointed postmaster, in connection with which he
has been editing the Logansport News since January, 1890. It is an ably
edited, breezy newspaper, and already has circulation approximating ],000.
His paper is established in the interests of the Democratic party, which he
has long been a member, and at all times some interesting and valuable
information can gleaned from its columns.

He, was married in 1886 to Miss Penny M. Cummins, a teacher in Keatchie
College. Mrs. Chatham is a member of the Baptist Church, and has borne her
husband '0 children, the second of which only is living.