William Grover Latshaw was born February 1, 1886, in Naperville, DuPage County, Illinois, the third son of William S. Latshaw and Amelia Manbeck.
He attended the West Side School in the old Naperville Academy building on Eagle Street, also taking some high school courses there under the principal, Professor Bunnell.
After attending school, William learned the barber trade, working in Emery Meiley’s Barber Shop. While working as a barber he took the Post Office examination for mail carrier. William was notified that he had passed the exam by the Post Master, Horace Peaslee, and immediately quit the barber trade, right in the middle of a haircut…