sentences:  Instead, he accepted an appointment consul at Melbourne, Australia in 1867, returning to West Virginia in 1870.Latham then briefly lived with his elderly father-in-law and relatives before moved to Buckhannon, the county seat of Upshur County, West Virginia, where he farmed as well as served as school superintendent from 1875 to 1877, Latham also supervised a district of the United States Census for the 10th Census (the first census division of West Virginia).Latham died in Buckhannon, Upshur County, West Virginia on December 16, 1917.