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History of the Great Lakes
Illustrated, In Two Volumes, Vol. II
Chicago, J. H. Beers & Co., 1899

           [256-257]

              CAPTAIN HORACE K. LANGLEY (deceased), the son of CAPT. SAMUEL
              G. and SARAH A. (HILTON) LANGLEY, was born at Lee, New Hamp-
              shire, about the year 1830. His father later lived at New-
              buryport, Mass., and was a shipbuilder. [For the ancestry
	      of our subject, the reader is referred to the sketch of CAPT.
	      SAMUEL G. LANGLEY, which appears elsewhere in this book.]
	      Like his distinguished brother, CAPTAIN LANGLEY was early
	      accustomed to the water, and when but a lad began the life of
	      a sailor, going as cabin boy with an older brother, JOHN F.
	      LANGLEY, who was sailing on a line of vessels between Boston
	      and New York City. In 1845, the brother was lost, and young
	      LANGLEY returned to his home, and was for a time employed
	      with his father at Newburyport. Along in the 'fifties HORACE
	      K. came out to Buffalo, N. Y., and began sailing from that
	      point; subsequently he went to Chicago, and entered the
	      service of the Western Transportation Company, and was with
	      it for many years, during which time he sailed the propellers
	      Omar Pasha, Mohawk, Bucephalus and the Concord - all first-
	      class vessels, some of them in the Detroit and Chicago trade
	      and some running between Chicago and Buffalo. He also sailed
	      for DUNCAN STEWART, of Detroit, the Anna Young, between Buf-
	      falo and Saginaw and intermediate points. After leaving that
	      company's service he came to St. Joseph and went to farming,
	      having years before located his family at that point. Later
	      he sailed the Skylark for a season or two between St. Joseph
	      and Chicago, and then returned to the farm, on which his
	      death occurred December 4, 1875.
	        CAPTAIN LANGLEY possessed many of the sterling qualities of
	      his brother SAMUEL G., and ranked with the first-class
	      masters then on the lakes. He was a Mason, and in politics a
	      Republican.
	        In 1849 he was married to Mrs. JOHN F. LANGLEY, whose
	      maiden name was DAVIS, a daughter of SAMUEL and SARAH
	      (CHAPMAN) DAVIS, the daughter being a native of Connecticut,
              but who grew up in New York City.
                CAPT. JOHN F. LANGLEY, a brother of HORACE K., was a native
              of Lee, New Hampshire, born in 1820, and at the age of four-
              teen left home and went to Boston. He seemed determined upon
              going on the water, and so was apprenticed to a MR. DAVIS, of
              Connecticut, who owned or was on a line of vessels between
              Boston and New York, and in that company young LANGLEY served
              out his time. At nineteen he was made master of one of the
              vessels, and remained in that company's employ until he was
              lost on the schooner Reecide off Hell Gate, in February,
              1845. CAPTAIN LANGLEY married the niece of the MR. DAVIS
              referred to, and to this union were born two children: GEORGE
              and KATE. After the death of JOHN F., and in 1849, the widow
              married the brother, CAPT. HORACE K. LANGLEY. She now resides
              at Rockford, Illinois.

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