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Charles Latham, Jr. October 31, 2010 |
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Charles Latham, Jr., 93, died on Oct. 31, 2010, in Kendal at Hanover. His Latham ancestors were early residents of Lyme, N.H. and Thetford, Vt. He was born May 6, 1917, in Indianapolis, the only child of Charles Latham and Josephine Parker (Sharpe) Latham. A 1939 graduate of Princeton, he received a master's degree in history from Harvard in 1940 and served in the Army Signal Corps during the Second World War. After the war he resumed his career as a history teacher, spending ten years at Dublin School in Dublin, N.H, and 24 years at the Episcopal Academy in Philadelphia, where he also served as cross-country coach. After his retirement from teaching in 1982, he moved back to Indianapolis and worked as an archivist at the Indiana Historical Society. In 1997 he became a resident of Kendal at Hanover. In the 1950s he acquired the Latham family house in Thetford where he spent summers for the rest of his life. At the same time he began a long association with the Thetford Historical Society, serving as its president and principal archivist for many years. His many publications include A Short History of Thetford, William Fortune: A Hoosier Biography, and histories of Dublin School and the Episcopal Academy. He combined his love of art, architecture, and antiques with his love of travel: throughout his life he made numerous trips to Europe where he studied cathedrals and bought prints and paintings. Charles Latham had no immediate survivors but he left behind a wide circle of friends, family, and former students in the Upper Valley and across the country. Gifts in his memory can be made to the Thetford Historical Society, the Latham Memorial Library in Thetford, or Thetford Academy. Arrangements are under the direction of the Rand-Wilson Funeral Home of Hanover, NH. A memorial service will be held
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