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From: "Cathy Joynt Labath" <>
Subject: [IA-IRISH] Bio of W.P. Langan
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 15:57:24 -0600

Surnames: Langan, Welch

The History of Jones County, Iowa; .Chicago: Western Hist. Co., 1879

W.P. Langan , blacksmith, Oxford Mills; born in Ireland in 1835, and
came to America in 1845, landing in Canada, and settled in Jennings Co.,
Ind., in 1845, and remained there until 21 and learned his trade, when he
went to Missouri in May, 1856, and remained until February, 1857; then, in
the latter part of February, 1857, went to Davenport, Iowa, and stayed there
until September; then went to Clinton Co., Iowa; then to Cedar Co. in
November, 1857, and remained there until October, 1859, when he came to
Oxford Mills. In 1861 he enlisted in the 14th I.V.I.; was transferred to the
41st I.V.I. and then to the 7th I.V.C.; and was mustered out Feb. 11, 1864;
was on the frontier most of the time with the Indians. He owns eighty acres
in Missouri and property in Oxford mills. His wife was born in New York in
1838; came to Indiana and then to Iowa in 1857; was married to Bridget Welch
in 1859, in Davenport, Iowa; they have seven children living-Mary L., Effie
G., Lillie A., Thomas E., Herbert W., Ettie and Katie. In politics, Democrat
and in religion, Catholic.


Cathy Joynt Labath
The Irish in Iowa
http://www.celticcousins.net/irishiniowa/index.htm

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