Jedediah Hyde Lathrop

Jedediah Hyde Lathrop (July 5, 1806 – November 23, 1889) was an American merchant.

[2] In 1842, Lathrop was appointed by President John Tyler to succeed George W. Clinton[3] as the Collector of the Port of Buffalo, serving in that position until 1845.

[6] Lathrop and his wife were strong unionists, and, in the leadup to the American Civil War, the family left Alexandria, Virginia, to settle in Chicago, where his wife's brother, Thomas Barbour Bryan, had been living since 1852.

[7][8] They settled in the suburb of Cottage Hill, today's Elmhurst, Illinois,[9] where they built their "Huntington" estate in 1864, adjacent to Bryan's "Eagles Nest".

Together, they were the parents of: Lathrop died on November 23, 1889, in Chicago, and was buried at Graceland Cemetery.