John Latta

"John Latta, Lieutenant-Governor of Pennsylvania, was of Scotch-Irish descent, and came to Greensburg from Unity township, where he was born March 5, 1836. He was the son of Moses and Eliza [Graham] Latta, and the grandson of John Latta, who, with his brother Moses, had settled in Mount Pleasant township, on the land upon which Mammoth Coke Works are now built. John Latta, the elder, was married to a Miss Storey, of Princeton, New Jersey, and by her had four children, among them being Moses Latta, the father of the Governor John Latta." (Hedley)

Sources

• Hedley, Capt. Fenwick Y. Old and New Westmoreland. New York: American Historical Society, 1918.