Latting, Hitchcock & Company

City: New Orleans

State: Louisiana

Latting, Hitchcock & Company, composed of D. G. Hitchcock and R. G. Latting, sold fire, marine, river, and life insurance policies at the corner of Camp and Poydras streets in New Orleans, Louisiana. The company also advertised themselves as commission, forwarding, bagging, rope, and produce merchants. One client, for whom the company acted as agents, was A. Whiting & Company, general commission and forwarding merchants in St. Louis, Missouri.

Joseph S. Copes to Abraham Lincoln; A. Mygatt & Co's New Orleans Business Directory 1858 (New Orleans: A. Mygatt, 1857), 5; Robert V. Kennedy, comp., Kennedy's Saint Louis City Directory for the year 1857 (St. Louis: R. V. Kennedy, 1857), Advertising Department, 71.