Benjamin Langlois Biography, Charles Mix County, SD This biography is taken from the "Standard Atlas of Charles Mix County (1906)", published by Geo. A. Ogle & Co. Page 53 Transcribed by Joy Fisher, sdgenweb@yahoo.com and may be copied for non-profit purposes. All other rights reserved. Benjamin Langlois, better known as "Uncle Ben" and who formerly was sometimes known as "Cubiter" and nicknamed "Booboo" by the Indians, first came into this region in 1854 in the employ of the government as a laborer and herder. He next went to Ft. Laramie, and thence to Ft. Randall in 1857, following the same occupation. In the fall of 1867 he settled on Ben's creek east of Wheeler on land which he later acquired title as a homestead. He remained there, farming a little and raising a few cattle until 1889, when he removed with his Sioux wife to the old Chas. P. Barbier homestead at the mouth of Spring creek, now owned by Will H. Menzie, having filed on a small tract there. from thence he removed in 1893 to his present home on Pease creek near the water tank east of Geddes. "Uncle Ben" says that among the other neighbors while on Ben's creek was Antoine Le Beau, who remained there about two years on land adjoining his own, at about the time Gen. Campbell was running a store on Campbell creek.