Bios: LANGHAM, Sharp S.,  Indiana Co, PA


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

SHARP S. LANGHAM lumber dealer of Dixonville, Indiana county, who is also
engaged in farming in Green township, this county, was born in that township,
Aug. 21, 1874, son of Josiah and Susan (Conrath) Langham.
William Langham, the grandfather of Sharp S. Langham, came from eastern
Pennsylvania to Indiana county in 1836, settling in Green township, where
he took up timbered land, cleared it, and engaged in farming there throughout
the remainder of his life.
Josiah Langham, son of William, and father of Sharp S. Langham, was born
in the eastern part of Pennsylvania, and accompanied his parents to Indiana
county in 1836. Like his father he was an agriculturist all of his life,
and his death occurred in 1901. He married Susan Conrath, also a native
of eastern Pennsylvania, and the daughter of an early settler of Indiana
county, and she died in 1905, the mother of six children, namely:
Mary Ann, who married S. F. Baker, of Purchase Line, Indiana county; James
W., who lives in Garrett, Ind.; Maggie, who married P. E. Decker, of Green
township; Jennie,, who married Stephen T. Gibson, of Clymer, Pa.; Harvey
B., a lumber and coal dealer of Love. joy, Pa.; and Sharp S.
Sharp S. Langham was educated in the public schools of Green township,
and was reared to agricultural pursuits, still being the owner of the old
Green township family homestead. He continued under the parental roof until
1900,
in which year he embarked in the lumber business, and for the last thirteen
years has conducted mills in different localities, having built up a large
and flourishing business in that line. On March 21, 1903, Mr. Langham was
united in marriage with Dellie Kelly, who was born in Mechanicsburg, Brushvalley
township, Indiana county, Jan. 15, 1884, daughter of James and Ida (Williams)
Kelly, both of whom are living at Mechanicsburg, Mr. Kelly being engaged
in farming. Mr. and Mrs. Langham have two children, Effie and Ruby. Mrs.
Langham is a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.


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