Figure 1.-- Here we see the Lattin family on the Isle of Pines, an island south of western Cuba, in 1911. Castro would lster name it the Isls de Juventad. Both boys wear knickers, one with long stockings, the other id barefoot. Notice his flat cap.

Jarvis Andrew Lattin was born on May 29, 1853 in Farmingdale, Queens County, Long Island, New York. He married Mary Jane Puckett on October 15, 1874. They had 13 children. In early 1880 they moved to Nebraska, but they returned to Farmingdale in 1888 and Jarvis started a pickle and sauerkraut factory. Jarvis in 1909 moved his family near Santa Barbara on the Isle of Pines in Cuba. After Cuban independence, the status of the Isle of Pines (Isla de Pinos) was unsettled. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Cuba did not belong to the United States. This did not answer the question of who it did belong to. Here we see the family in Cuba during 1911 (figure 1). Both boys wear knickers, one with long stockings, the other id barefoot. Notice his flat cap. The United States formally ceded jurisdiuction to Cuba. President Castro would later change the name to the Isla de la Juventud. Jarvis returned his family to the Umited States and lived in Florida. Jarvis died in Lake Helen, Florida in 1941.

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