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WEST VIRGINIA In History, Life, Literature and Industry
The Lewis Publishing Company 1928 - Volume 5, page 76-77

CLAUDE A. LATHAM, physician and surgeon, is one of the prominent younger
group of doctors at Huntington, rated as a skilful surgeon and a man of
thorough training and sound capabilities.
He was born at Ravenswood, West Virginia, in 1895, son of M. H. and Mary
Elizabeth (Parks) Latham, and grandson of Frank Latham and Elmer Parks.
Elmer Parks was born in Ohio, but at an early day moved to West Virginia
and spent the rest of his life as a farmer. His daughter, Elizabeth Parks,
was born in Ohio. M. H. Latham is a native of West Virginia, and he and his
wife now live at East Liverpool, Ohio, where he is a dry goods merchant.
Both are members of the Methodist Church and he is a Republican in
politics. They had two sons: Dr. Claude A. and Carl Rodney.
Claude A. Latham attended high school at Ravenswood, West Virginia,
graduated Bachelor of Science from West Virginia University in 1920, having
taken his pre-medical course there, and in 1922 graduated from Jefferson
Medical College of Philadelphia. He spent one year as an interne in the
Grant Hospital at Columbus, Ohio, and began practice at the Holden Hospital
in Logan County, West Virginia. From there in 1924 he located at Huntington
and has since engaged in general private practice. His surgical work is
handled in the Guthrie and St. mary hospitals. He is a member of the Cabell
County, West Virginia State and American medical Associations.
Doctor Latham married, October 6, 1926, Miss Mary Rebecca Werninger, a
native of Huntington, daughter of A. W. Werninger, a well known insurance
man. Doctor Latham is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, North,
and his wife belongs to the southern branch of the church. He has
membership in the college fraternities Phi Sigma Kappa and Alpha Kappa
Kappa, and is a Scottish Rite Mason.


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