Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Lang, John C 
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Author: Past and Present of Will County, IL; 1907

John C. Lang, clerk of the Probate court at Joliet, was born in Frankfort. 
Will county, in 1844, and attended the public schools while spending his 
boyhood days under the parental roof. He is a son of Thomas J. Lang, who came 
to Illinois from New Hampshire in 1834, only two years after the Black Hawk 
war, whereby the white race contested with the red men the supremacy of this 
great commonwealth. He settled at Plainfield, where he made his home for 
several years, and then removed to Frankfort, where he resided until 1845, 
when he returned to Plainfield. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Nancy 
George, was born in New Hampshire, but is now deceased. The father served as 
justice of the peace at Frankfort and was postmaster at Plainfield for many 
years. He died in 1888 at the age of eighty years. His education completed, 
John C. Lang engaged in the coal business at Joliet for seven or eight years, 
becoming a resident of this city in 1870. He was employed for four or five 
years at the penitentiary and was eventually appointed deputy warden. Later he 
was connected with the newspaper business and in November, 1906, he was called 
to public office by election to the position of probate clerk on the 
republican ticket. He has always been especially interested in politics, is 
thoroughly conversant with the more important issues and questions before the 
people and has ever been able to sustain his position by intelligent and 
strong argument. He has as assistants in his present position B. H. King as 
deputy probate clerk and F. H. Roberts, together with two record clerks, 
Lillian Yost and Miss Alice Moehlenpah. He was twice city collector and served 
as chief of police for two years under Mayor H. H. Stassen. He also served for 
three years as deputy probate clerk before and after election to his present 
office in the fall of 1906, and over the record of his official career there 
falls no shadow of wrong or suspicion of evil. In his fraternal relations Mr. 
Lang is a Mason and is also a prominent representative of the Grand Army of 
the Republic, being entitled to membership therein through his service in the 
One Hundredth Illinois Infantry. He enlisted in 1862, serving for three years, 
giving proof of his valor and loyalty upon many a southern battlefield. He 
became a first sergeant in the Thirty-second regiment of United States 
Infantry and he is now a past commander of Bartleson post. No. 6, G. A. R. Mr. 
Lang was married in Joliet in 1874 to Miss Emily C. Webster, a native of New 
York. They are the parents of eight children: Francis M., who is married and 
lives in Joliet; Horace W., at the steel mills in Joliet; Joseph C., at the 
steel and wire mills at Waukegan, Wisconsin; Charles L.; Florence; Howard; 
Eugene F.; and Donald C. 

Additional Comments:
PAST AND PRESENT OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS By W. W. Stevens President of the 
Will County Pioneers Association; Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1907

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