HARALSON COUNTY, GA - BIOS  N.J. Langston

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Source: "MEMOIRS OF GEORGIA", Historical and Biographical Sketches,  1896.

N. J. LANGSTON, physician, Waco, Haralson Co., Ga.,
son of Reuben J. and Sarah Langston, was born in
Franklin county, Ga., Dec. 10, 1848. His father was
a farmer in ordinary circumstances, and both father
and mother were born and lived and died in Franklin
county. Dr. Langston received the benefit only of
the very limited educational advantages afforded by
the common country schools of the period and
locality. These he supplemented by study at home,
night by pine-knot light. Aug. 27, 1862, he enlisted
in Company B, Capt. J. J. Owens, /Twenty-ninth
Georgia regiment, and with his command participated
in the following important battles: Jackson, Miss.,
Missionary Ridge, Chickamauga, New Hope Church, and
Resaca. During his service he was wounded three
times, and a ball received when one was inflicted,
still remains in his hip. After the war he returned
to his farm in Franklin county where he farmed until
1887, when he engaged in business as a traveling
photographer, which, however, he continued but a few
months, when he became a traveling passenger agent
for the Richmond & Danville Railway company, a
position he held until 1891. He then studied
medicine, and entering the Southern Medical college,
at Atlanta, graduated from it March 23, 1893. He
located at once at Waco, and rapidly advanced to a
front position. Dr. Langston has been twice married.
His first wife, married in 1869, was Miss Mary,
daughter of John and Mary Duncan, of Elbert county,
by whom he had two children: William H. and Maude.
His second wife, whom he married in 1891, was Miss
Maggie, daughter of C. P Vandergriff of Temple,
Carroll Co., Ga. Dr. Langston has already achieved
unusual success in his profession, and the promise
of eminence in the future is very bright. His family
are members of the Missionary Baptist church.