HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS, E. Polk Johnson, three volumes,
Lewis Publishing Co., New York & Chicago, 1912. Common version, Vol. III,
pp. 1216-17.   [Jefferson County]

CHARLES H. WHITLATCH, M.D.--The medical profession in the city of
Louisville has as one of its able and representative younger members, Dr.
Charles Henry Whitlatch, who has here been engaged in practice since 1906
and he has built up a successful business, which is constantly increasing
in scope and importance.
     Dr. Whitlatch was born in Charlestown, Clark county, Indiana, on the
23d of November, 1880, and is a son of Isaac and Sarah J. (Toombs)
Whitlatch.  His father was born in Scott county, Indiana, about 1850, a
son of Isaac Whitlatch, who was also a native of Indiana, in which state
the family was founded in the early pioneer days, original representatives
having moved there from Philadelphia.  The lineage of the family is traced
back to the staunch Scotch-Irish stock.  The mother of Dr. Whitlatch was
born at Milton, Kentucky, in 1852, and her death occurred in 1897.  She
was a daughter of John Toombs, who was born in Kentucky, in 1806, and who
died in 1898, at the age of ninety-two years.  He had witnessed and
contributed to the development of the state and in his venerable age he
often recalled that he remembered Louisville when it was a mere village.
     Dr. Charles H. Whitlatch is indebted to the public schools of his
native town for his early educational discipline, which included a course
in the high school, in which he was graduated in the class of 1900.
Thereafter he completed a course and was graduated in the Bryant & Stratton
Business College, in the city of Louisville, after which he entered the
old Louisville Hospital College of Medicine, in 1901.  In this well ordered
institution he completed the prescribed course and was graduated as a
member of the class of 1905.  He received his degree of Doctor of Medicine
and also had the distinction of securing third honors in the class of one
hundred students.  This gained to him an appointment as interne for one
year at the Infirmary on Gray street, where he secured clinical experience
of much value.  He has been engaged in the general practice of his
profession in Louisville since 1906, and for two years he was assistant
professor of obstetrics in the Louisville Hospital Medical College.  He
is now assistant to the chair of surgery in the medical department of
the Louisville University, besides which he has the distinction of being
city physician, to which position he was appointed in 1909, for a term of
four years.  Dr. Whitlatch is actively identified with the Jefferson
County Medical Society, the Kentucky State Medical Society and the
American Medical Association, taking an active interest in the work of
each and also having recourse to the best standard and periodical
literature of his profession.  In a fraternal way Dr. Whitlatch is
identified with the Modern Woodmen of America, and both he and his wife
hold membership in the Broadway Christian church.
     In 1908 was solemnized the marriage of Dr. Whitlatch to Miss Mary
B. Chambers, who was born at Henderson, Kentucky, and who is a daughter
of Byrd L. Chambers, a representative citizen of that place.  Dr. and Mrs.
Whitlatch have one daughter, Dorothy, who was born on the 10th of March
1909.

Whitlatch Toombs Chambers
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Milton-Trimble-KY Henderson-Henderson-KY Charlestown-Clark-IN PA

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