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THOMAS HENRY LANGSTROTH, son of Thomas and Hannah B. Langstroth, was born October 15, 1830, at Trenton, New Jersey. He attended the schools of his native town, and later the school at Mount Holly, New Jersey, kept by a Dr. Miller, a boarding institution for boys which had quite a reputation in its day. Leaving school at the age of seventeen years, he entered the store of Richardson & Company, on Market street, Philadelphia, as a junior clerk, but soon returned to his father’s farm in Horsham township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania.

He remained there until his marriage in 1854 to Mary Elizabeth, born February 20, 1836, daughter of Jacob Weber and Ann (McVaugh) Hauss, farmers of Worcester township in the same county. For two years after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Langstroth lived on the farm now owned by Jacob Hoffman, in Gwynedd township, same county, until the spring of 1857, when they removed to the town of Northeast, Maryland, where he conducted a livery stable and mail route. He remained there until 1861, at the outbreak of the Rebellion, when he was drafted into the quartermaster’s department of the Union army, and as wagon master piloted the supply wagon train to Washington, District of Columbia. In 1862 he was transferred to Fortress Monroe, and from that place followed up the Union army in its operations in eastern Virginia. In the fall of that year he returned to the northeast under the disability act, and immediately went to Philadelphia, where he recuperated and later enlisted in the Fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, commonly known as Governor Curtin’s Regiment, and later was honorably discharged. Subsequently he entered the employ of Hall, Garrison & Company, interior decorators, with whom he remained until 1888. In the spring of that year, Mr. Langstroth removed to Penllyn, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, where he purchased an acre of ground from John C. Richardson, a contractor, and engaged in building on the property as his future home, having retired from active business life. He has always taken an active interest in the Republican party, of which he has been a lifelong member. In religious faith the family are members of the Presbyterian church.

The children of Mr. and Mrs. Langstroth: Edward Clifford, born April 12, 1855, married Mary Louisa, daughter of Christian Hagenswiler, of Philadelphia; Emma Frances, born June 12, 1858, resides in Philadelphia, unmarried; Annie Elizabeth, born March 16, 1860, married Henry Augustus, son of Lucius Maull; H. Tener, born May 9, 1863, engaged as a foreman in the hat finishing department of J. B. Stetson & Sons, Philadelphia, resides at the Langstroth home “Shady Side,” Penllyn; Mary Ella, born March 25, 1866, married, February 20, 1889, Ellsworth Niblock, having two children, Pauline Eleanor, born June 4, 1890, and Ruth Elizabeth, born April 6, 1894; Benjamin Wilmer, born December 21, 1867, married Lillian Bell McClain, their child being Dorothy Margaret, and they living in Brooklyn, New York; Henry Herbert, born October 22, 1872, married Laura Anna daughter of Charles Hoover of Ambler, and had one child, Hugh Tener, born August 23, 1903, died in 1904; Sarah Hauss, born September 18, 1875, resides at “Shady Side,” unmarried; Bessie Mabel, born May 31, 1879, unmarried, and resides at “Shady Side.”