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Below is a family biography included in the Biographical Annals of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania published in 1904 by T. S. Benham & Company and The Lewis Publishing Company; Elwood Roberts, Editor. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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HUGH TENER LANGSTROTH, son of Thomas Henry Langstroth and Mary E.(Hauss) Langstroth, was born May 9, 1863, in the city of Philadelphia, where his father was engaged with a firm of interior decorators.
He attended the public schools of his native city until his sixteenth year, when he entered the employ of John B. Stetson, founder of the Stetson Hat Manufacturing Company, as an apprentice in the finishing department. He remained in this department as an apprentice for five years, becoming perfectly familiar with every detail of the business, being a careful and conscientious workman. He was steadily advanced by his employers, and ultimately attained the position of superintending foreman of the finishing department, and was in charge of more than five hundred skilled employees. The progress made by Mr. Langstroth in his particular line of work, attaining the commanding position which he holds with the John B. Stetson Company, speaks well for his energy, stability and general trustworthiness of character. In the affairs of church and politics, as well as educational work, Mr. Langstroth is greatly interested. In 1903 he purchased the well known place, “Shady Side,” formerly the home of Dr. Tyson, at Penllyn, which he has greatly improved, and where he resides with his parents and sisters. Mr. Langstroth is unmarried.
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