ASHTABULA COUNTY OHIO 
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Transcribed by Cherre Loftus Flynn.

THE HISTORY OF ASHTABULA COUNTY, OHIO
        WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
           OF ITS PIONEERS AND MOST PROMINENT MEN
           Published in Philadelphia by Williams Brothers in 1878

 VICTORIAN D. LATIMER.  "The subject of the following sketch was born in the
 township where he now resides (Rock Creek, Ashtabula County) on the third day
 of September, 1843.  He is the fifth child of William and Corresta Reed Latmer, the
 former of whom was born in Otis, Massachusetts, and the latter in Granby,
 Connecticut.  The family came to Ohio in 1818.  The mother still resides there, the
 father having died in 1870.  Victorian D. received a fair academic education.  He
 was a member of the Eighty-seventh Regiment, Ohio Volunteers, and was taken
 prisoner by the southern Confederacy, in Harper's Ferry, on September 18, 1862.
  Returning after the expiration of his term of service, he engaged in the mercantile
 business.  In the year 1875 he erected the fine brick block where he now carries on
 the drg and hardware trade.

 He was united in marriage on October 4, 1864 to Esther, daughter of Baldwin and
 Harriet Fitzgerald Morris.  From this marriage have been born two children; these
 are Lenah, born May 8, 1866, and Frank O., whose birth occurred April 16, 1868."