Biographical Sketch of Rev. Francis A. LATTA (1881); Chester County, PA

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from Futhey and Cope's THE HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY (1881);

Rev. Francis A. Latta, the oldest son of Rev. Dr James Latta, was born April 27, 
1766.  He was ordained as a Presbyterian clergyman Nov. 23, 1796, and was pastor 
successively of Presbyterian churches in Wilmington, Del, and Lancaster and 
Chestnut Level, Pa, in which latter place he also maintained a classical school 
for many years.  In the year 1826 he moved to Sadsbury twp, Chester Co, and 
established the Moscow Academy, a classical and literary institution, which 
flourished for some years.  He was a man of remarkable well-cultivated mind, a 
poet of no mean order, a very superior classical and Hebrew scholar, and was one 
of the greatest instructors of his day.  He was able to debate, discriminating 
and decided in judgment, and was a model in the pulpit.  In his manners he was 
social and in his deportment humble and unostentatious.  He died April 21, 1834.