Bios: LANGHAM, Harvey B., Indiana Co, PA

SUBJECT: LANGHAM, Harvey B.
SUBMITTER: E.K. Warner
EMAIL: wgene@twd.net
DATE: Oct 23, 1998
SURNAMES: BAKER, CONRATH, DECKER, GIBSON, LANGHAM, LITZINGER, LYDICK
From:
Prof. J.T. Stewart's "Indiana County Pennsylvania, Her People Past
and Present" Pub. 1913

HARVEY B. LANGHAM, of Lovejoy, Indiana county, who is engaged in the lumber
and coal business, was born in that vicinity, in Green township, Dec. 7,
1872, and is a son of Josiah and Susan (Conrath) Langham.
William Langham, his grandfather, came to Indiana county in 1836 from eastern
Pennsylvania, settling in Green township, where he took up timbered land,
cleared it, and carried on farming throughout the rest of his life.
Josiah Langham son of William and father of Harvey B. Langham, was born
in the eastern part of Pennsylvania, and accompanied his parents to Indiana
County in the year 1836. Following in the footsteps of his father, he engaged
in agricultural pursuits all his life. His death occurred Feb. 8, 1901
His wife, Susan (Conrath), also a native of eastern Pennsylvania, was the
daughter of, John Conrath, of Green township, a pioneer settler of Indiana
county. She died April 8, 1905, the mother of six children : Mary Ann,
who is the wife of S. F. Baker, of Purchase Line, Indiana county; James
W., who lives in Garrett, Ind.; Maggie, who is the wife of P. E. Decker,
of Green township; Jennie, who married Stephen T. Gibson, of Clymer, Pa.;
Harvey B., of Lovejoy, and Sharp, who is a resident of Dixonville, Indiana
Co., Pennsylvania.
Harvey B. Langham attended public school in Green township, and as a youth
commenced to do farm work. In 1900 he engaged in the sawmill business in
Green township, which he has continued to the present time, and in 1905
opened a hardware establish. ment in Lovejoy, which he sold in 1911. Since
that year he has conducted his sawmill and also dealt extensively in coal
and lumber.
Mr. Langham was married in 1907 to Edna Litzinger, of Hillsdale, Montgomery
township, daughter of John and Nannie (Lydick) Litzinger, natives of Indiana
county, the former of whom died in 1906, after having been engaged in the
milling business for many years. Mrs. Litzinger survives her husband, and
resides on a farm at Punxsutawney.
Fraternally Mr. Langham is connected with the I. O. O. F., at Cherrytree,
and the Knights of Pythias at Starford. He has interested himself in movements
for the benefit of the community and has served as a member of the school
board of Green township.


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