John Lang, Sr. and Lucretia Eaton

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Husband John Lang, Sr. ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: Abt 1806 - Cambria Co, PA
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           Died: 1883 4
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         Father: Henry Lang (      -      ) 1
         Mother: 

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       Marriage: 

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   Other Spouse: Nancy Moore (Abt 1801-1841) 4 5

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   Other Spouse: Mary L. "Polly" Work (      -Bef 1894) 3 4

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Wife Lucretia Eaton ⁴

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           Born: 
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           Died: Aft 1898
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Children

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General Notes: Husband - John Lang, Sr.

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He was born in MacElravey's fort during the war of the Revolution, in which his father was a soldier. [HAC 1914, 590] But this would put the date of his birth quite early. Another source indicates his father was a soldier in the War of 1812 and gives much later dates.
He came from Juniata County, Pennsylvania, and became engaged as a woolen manufacturer, having a mill at Langville, Jefferson County. The town was named in his honor.

While his father was in the War of 1812, he threshed wheat for a tenth share in order to support the family. He was born in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, and served an apprenticeship in a woolen-mill at Croft creek. When twenty-one years of age he went to Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, where he was employed in a woolen-mill for four years. He then married and purchased land at Shavers Creek, where he engaged in farming and in the manufacture of woolen goods. In 1852 he moved to Jefferson County, and settled on the present site of Langville, which town was named in his honor. In 1852 he established the woolen-mill later owned by his son, John, Jr., and in addition to this property he owned three farms. He was a self-made man, who started out in life with a cash capital of fifty cents, but through his own efforts became quite wealthy.

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General Notes: Wife - Lucretia Eaton

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from Massachusetts
Langville, Jefferson Co, PA

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1154.

2 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 421, 590.

3 M. T. Steele & Edith Work, The Work Family (Marion Center, PA: Privately published, 1894), Pg 85.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1155.

5 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 590.