Will County IL Archives Biographies.....LANGDON, THOMAS 
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THOMAS LANGDON.  A lifelong resident of this county, familiar with its growth 
and interested in its prosperity, Mr. Langdon is especially qualified to 
discharge with efficiency his duties as supervisor of Troy Township.  Four 
times he has been elected to this office, and his repeated selection for the 
place is ample evidence of his ability to fill it and the high esteem in which 
he is held by his fellow-citizens.  He is one of the local leaders of the 
Democratic party and takes the liveliest interest in the success of its 
candidates and principles.   Besides the office he now holds, he has served as 
highway commissioner for two terms.  By the board of supervisors he was 
appointed a member of the building committee in charge of the erection of the 
county poor farm buildings, on which $22,500  was expended, and he faithfully 
discharged the trust reposed in him.  For several years he was a member of the 
board of the poor farm, and at this writing he is a member of the committee to 
settle with the sheriff and the committee on fees and salaries.

The farm which Mr. Langdon occupies is situated in Troy Township, five miles 
west of Joliet.  He was born in this township September 27, 1846.  His father, 
John Langdon, came to the United States in early manhood and for a time made 
his home in New York state, but in 1835 settled in Illinois, taking up land in 
this township, of which he was one of the first settlers.  After a time he 
purchased eighty acres, which made his farm one of two hundred and forty acres, 
and to the cultivation of this property he gave the subsequent years of his 
life.  Prior to coming to America he married Bridget Gillespie.  They became 
the parents of twelve children, of whom two sons and three daughters are now in 
this county: Mrs. Eliza Green and Mrs. Sarah Ryan (twins); Francis E.; Thomas; 
and Nellie, wife of Martin Langdon, of Omaha.

After having acquired a thorough knowledge of agriculture by working on the 
home farm,  our subject started out for himself at twenty-two years of age.  
For four years he rented a place, after which he bought and removed to a farm 
of his own.  However, since 1880 he has operated his present estate, where he 
farms two hundred and forty acres, making a specialty of raising
corn, oats and hay.  He also engages in raising cattle, mostly of the Durham 
breed.  He is a member of St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church of Joliet, to the 
work of which he is a regular contributor.  January 3, 1871, he married 
Catherine Talbot, of this county.  They are the parents of five children now 
living, namely: John Ambrose, who is traveling from Omaha for the Cudahy 
Brothers; Richard T., who assists in cultivating the home farm; Blanche Lorene;
Catharine Frances, a student in the Joliet high school; and Elizabeth Agnes 
(Bessie) Langdon.



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