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Birth:          13 Jun 1792 Vershire, Vt.
Death:          13 Apr 1887 Columbia, now Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio

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email from Mary (slooogin@aol.com)
1850 in Spencer, Hamilton Co., Ohio farmer
1860 in Spencer, Hamilton Co., Ohio farmer
1870 in Spencer, Hamilton Co., Ohio farmer  with son John
1880 in Linwood, Hamilton Co., Ohio retired farmer
From http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohhamilt/histhc/359.html

The records of the LANGDON family in Linwood go back to Philip LANGDON, a 
mariner from Boston, Massachusetts, who was originally from England, it is supposed. 
His seventh child and fifth son was Lieutenant Paul LANGDON, who was born 
September 12, 1693, and died December 3, 1761. He married Mrs. Mary STACY 
August 18, 1718, in Wilbraham, Massachusetts, and they had seven children; the fifth 
being John LANGDON (the grandfather of James D. LANGDON). Lieutenant Paul 
LANGDON and this son John took part in the Revolutionary war. This John was born 
June 21, 1728, and died October 10, 1822. He married Eunice TORREY, December 
29, 1757, and they had a family of eight children, whose names were John W., 
Artemas, James, Josiah, Joanna, Oliver, Eunice, and Solomon. Of these Artemas died 
in infancy, and the brothers, excepting Josiah, all came to Ohio with their sister 
Joanna, and although-they were farming, yet they often officiated as preachers and 
exhorters in the Methodist church. They settled near Cincinnati, and some of their 
descendants are living in the old homestead. James, the third son, was the father of 
the subject of the following sketch. He was born March 27, 1762, and died October 3, 
1804. He was married December 15, 1788, to Esther STEBBINS, also of Wilbraham, 
Massachusetts, and their children were Richard Chester, James Davenport, Elam 
Potter, Lorenda, and Joanna. He (the father) died while the children were 
comparatively young, leaving the cares of the family on the mother, who was a woman 
of remarkable energy of character. She was usually known as "Aunt Esther," and as 
friend, nurse, or neighbor, was very often called upon for advice or assistance. In 
those days the women spun and wove the cloth for bedding and clothing, and Aunt 
Esther was a wonderful weaver and spinner. Her father was Moses STEBBINS, the 
son of Samuel, who was the son of Samuel, who was the son of Thomas, who was 
born in 1620, in England, and son of Rowland STEBBINS, or STEBBING, as the name 
was originally, and who came to America in 1634, and settled in Massachusetts. 

James Davenport LANGDON was born June 13, 1792, in Vershire, Vermont. His father 
was James LANGDON, who married Esther STEBBINS, December 15, 1788, in 
Wilbraham, Massachusetts. His parents were both natives of this place, but 
immediately after their marriage they moved to Vershire, Vermont. He had two brothers, 
Richard C. and Elam P., and two sisters, Lorenda and Joanna. In October, 1804, his 
father died whilst away from home on business, after a very short illness of measles. 
Two years after his death, or in 1806, two of his uncles, John W. and Solomon, with 
their families, his mother with her family, Andrew PETERS and Wales ALDRICH and 
their families, in all about forty souls, moved in wagons from Vermont and came out to 
Ohio. The journey was tedious and slowly made through the wilderness, there being no 
roads scarcely, camping at night as they could, sometimes at an occasional tavern or 
farm house, but oftener m their wagons as night came on. It took about ten weeks to 
reach the Ohio river at Wellsville, where they embarked on flat-boats, taking the 
wagons aboard, but sending the horses by land down the Ohio side, Floating down the 
river they landed at Columbia two days before Christmas. That first winter in Ohio his 
mother and family lived in part of the house of Oliver SPENCER - an old building which 
still stands near the old tanyard. There was only one other house then in Columbia, 
the McMAHON house, and that is still standing near the Columbia railroad station. 

This Oliver SPENCER was the father of Robert, afterwards a Methodist preacher, 
Henry E., who was for several years mayor of Cincinnati, Oliver, a judge in the 
Hamilton county courts, and a fourth son who became a farmer in northern Ohio. 

In the spring of 180l the family located at what was called Red Bank station, on the 
farms or lands which have ever since been occupied by them and their descendants, 
on and near the Little Miami river. This land was purchased by his uncle Oliver 
LANGDON, who was the guardian appointed in Vermont, out of tracts originally owned 
by Benjamin STITES. There were only ten or a dozen families then in all of what is 
now known as Spencer township; they were Eliphalet, Joseph, Andrew, and John 
FERRIS, brothers, and Henry FERRIS their cousin - the families of LARNED, Allen 
WITHAM, GIFFINS, NASH, RIGGLE and WILLIAMS. A treaty had been made two or 
three years before with the Indians, and about all had gone to reservations. The first 
school-house was built by Joseph Ferris on his farm. The first religious society, 
Methodist, was formed in 1805 in the McMAHON house alluded to, and the Baptists 
built the first church in Ohio in Columbia a few years later which was destroyed about 
1835. The Methodists built their first church in Columbia about 1840, which was 
accidently burned and rebuilt on another lot. The settlers lot the first year or two lived 
literally on hog and hominy. The first grist-mill was run by two brothers named 
HAWLEY, and was on the Miami near the mouth of Clough creek. Afterwards it was 
owned and run for years by the TURPINs until worn out or destroyed. 

The brothers and sisters of James D. are all dead. The sister Lorenda married Lemuel 
SNOW in September, 1816, and moved to a farm in Indiana; the other sister, Joanna, 
also married a farmer, Minervus SWIFT, in September, 1818, and lived four years in 
Indiana; Elam Potter married Ann CROMWELL, a sister of Joseph CROMWELL, who 
kept the famous Broadway hotel so long in Cincinnati. Elam Potter was connected as 
clerk or assistant postmaster nearly all his life with the Cincinnati post office. Richard 
was a printer and newspaper publisher, and his widow still lives in Covington, 
Kentucky. James D., the subject of this sketch, was married to Sarah PHELPS 
December 23, 1818, and has lived on the one spot about sixty-three years. He has 
always been actively engaged in farming from his early youth, and owes his good 
health and long years to good habits and regular living. His uncle Oliver was quite a 
preacher, and officiated at funerals, baptisms and marriages. After his uncle's death, 
in 1828 or 1829, he began to preach himself; the text of his first sermon was I Samuel 
xii-24 - "Only fear the Lord and serve Him in truth with all your heart, for consider how 
great things He has done for you" - and was at a service one Sunday at the mouth of 
the Little Miami river. There being but few ministers in those days it naturally fell to be 
his lot to take the uncle's place. So from that on he was continually called on to 
preach, attend funerals, and solemnize marriages for miles all around the country. He 
was licensed to preach in 1836 and ordained elder in 1842. During the year 1848 he 
was superintendent of Cincinnati circuit, and for eight years was a member of the 
annual conference of the Methodist Protestant church. He was president of the first 
temperance society formed in the year 1833 in Columbia township. For years in 
succession he was a township trustee and school director, and has all through life 
been an officer or trustee in Sunday-school. 

His wife had an experience in corning to Ohio (which was the year before the 
marriage, or 1817) very similar to that of her husband. She was born in Hollowell, 
Maine, on May 1, 1797, and was the daughter of Ebenezer and Sarah PHELPS. She 
had four brothers, William, John, Alfred and Nathan, with one sister, Eliza, who came 
in wagons all the long journey from Hollowell, Maine, to Columbia. The brothers and 
sister (who married Jonathan LIVINGS) all settled in Indiana, and raised families there. 
Dr. Ebenezer S. PHELPS, the oldest brother, located in Middleton, Massachusetts, 
where he and his family now reside. James D. and Sarah had a family of nine children 
- James, Sarah, Cynthia, Harriet, Cyrus, John, Elam, Edwin and Henry. There are now 
living only the father and three of the children - John P., Elam C., and Harriet. John P. 
occupies the homestead and is a farmer, and has one son, James W, who lives near 
his father, and is a farmer. The old family dwelling had become so out of repair and 
dilapidated, in 1877, having been used for some sixty years, it was torn down by John 
P., and a modern and commodious dwelling was built on the site. John P. has been 
mayor of the village for three successive terms, and been commissioned twice as 
magistrate for the township. Elam C. resides on part of the homestead farm, has had 
four children, three now living. These two brothers, from time to time, have been 
called upon to take part in affairs of the township and village. Elam has served 
seventeen years as school trustee, several terms in village council, two or three terms 
as treasurer of township, and both the brothers are members and workers in church 
and Sabbath-school, taking an active part in all public enterprises. Harriet became the 
wife of Rev. Charles H. WILLIAMS, a minister in the Methodist Protestant church. She 
has three sons living, and for several years her home has been in Springfield, Ohio, 
where the sons are connected with railroads, and the husband is an active church 
officer. The sons James, Cyrus and Edwin, and the daughter, Sarah, died young or 
unmarried. Cynthia married Dr. H. E. MORRILL, and her home was in Brooklyn, New 
York, where an only daughter survives her, and who is now the wife of Dr. Hugh 
SMITH. The son, Henry, became a physician and surgeon, and acted as such during 
the late war, in the Seventy-ninth regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, which was with 
General SHERMAN during that wonderful march through the South, which virtually 
brought the war to an end. His widow survives him and one son, Willie Carson. The 
doctor, after the close of the war, practised medicine in Columbia for several years, 
and his office was within gunshot almost of the old Spencer house, in which his 
grandmother and father spent the winter of 1806-7. 

The record of the family of James D. LANGDON: James D. LANGDON, born June 13, 
1792 Sarah PHELPS, born May 1, 1797, died September 11, 1863, married December 
23, 1818. Their children were: James Harvie, born November 23, 1819, died June 27, 
1842; Sarah, born October 1, 1821, died December 15, 1825; Cynthia, born August 
23, 1823, died January 9, 1861; Harriet, born July 25, 1825, still living in Springfield, 
Ohio; Cyrus Stebbins, born January 5, 1828, died February 1, 1864; John Phelps, born 
December 8, 1829, living in Linwood, Ohio; Elam Chester, born March 31, 1832, living 
in Linwood, Ohio; Edwin Mattoon, born December 20, 1834, died July 26, 1847; Henry 
Archer, born May 28, 1839, died May 13, 1876. 

John P. LANGDON married, for his first wife, Mary WILLIAMS, May, 1855, and James 
W., a son by this marriage, is living, and married to Lida DURHAM, and occupies part 
of the father's farm. John P.'s second marriage took place in April, 1861, to Keturah 
NASH, and the couple still occupy the homestead place, and the old father lives with 
them. 

Elam C.'s first wife was Cynthia ALLEN, of New York State. She died in December, 
1868, leaving two girls. His second wife was Martha F. NASH (whose sister married as 
above), a native of the old Columbia township. Two children have been born to them, 
one living only. 


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From http://www.heritagepursuit.com/Hamilton/HamiltonBio971.htm

JAMES D. LANGDON, a native of Vershire, Vt., came to Ohio in 1806, with quite a 
number of friends and relatives, who settled on farms on the Little Miami river. James 
D. Langdon, his father, lived to the age of ninety-three years. The genealogy of this 
branch of the Langdon family is somewhat interesting, and is briefly as follows: Phillip 
Langdon, with two brothers, came from Yorkshire, England, in 1640; he was the 
great-great-grandfather of James D. Langdon; his family home was in Wilbraham, 
Mass.; his son Paul was the great-grandfather of James D. Langdon. Paul had seven 
children; he and his son John were soldiers for a time in the Revolutionary war. John. 
the grandfather of James D. Langdon, had a family of eight children in Wilbraham, 
Mass., of whom the second son was James,



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1002 - HISTORY OF CINCINNATI AND HAMILTON COUNTY.

the father of James D. Langdon. Of this family of eight, five came to Ohio in the fall of 
1806, traveling, in common wagons from Massachusetts and Vermont in company with 
other pioneers, to Wellsville on the Ohio river, where they embarked on flatboats and 
floated down the river to Columbia, a short distance below the mouth of the Little 
Miami. where they landed and spent the winter, In the spring of 1807 land was 
selected on the Little Miami river which has been known ever since as the, " Langdon 
Bottoms." and almost wholly devoted to the cultivation of corn.

James D. Langdon, the father of Elam C., was married in .1818 to Sarah Phelps, a 
native of Hallowell, Maine, who came to Ohio in 1817, making the long overland 
journey in wagons. A family of nine children was born and reared on the original 
homestead where the son John P. now resides. The family record of James D. 
Langdon is as follows: James D. was born June 13, 1792, and died April 13, 1887; 
Sarah P., his wife, was born May 1, 1797, and died September 11, 1863, James 
Harvey, born November 23, 1819, died. unmarried, in 1842; Sarah, born October 1, 
1821, died in 1825: Cynthia. born August 23, 1823, married Henry E. Morrill, and died 
January 9, 1861 ; Harriet, born July 25, 1825, married Charles H. Williams, and resides 
in Springfield, Ohio; Cyrus Stebbins, born January 5, 1828, died unmarried in 1864; 
John Phelps, boro December 8, 1829, married Keturah A. Nash, and resides in 
Linwood, Ohio; Elam Chester, born March 31, 1832, married Martha F. Nash, and 
resides in Linwood; Edwin Mattoon, born December 20, 1834, died unmarried in 1847; 
Henry Archer, born May 28, 1839, married Eleanor Corbly, and died May 13, 1876.


Parents
LANGDON James ()
STEBBINS Esther ()

Siblings
LANGDON James Davenport (13 Jun 1792 - 13 Apr 1887)

Marriage To PHELPS Sarah (1 May 1797 - 11 Sep 1862)
    m. 23 Dec 1818 

Notes

Parents
PHELPS Ebenezer (7 Nov 1764 - 17 Oct 1831)
BROWNE Sarah H. (17 Mar 1768 - 26 Feb 1847)

Children by PHELPS Sarah 1 May 1797 - 11 Sep 1862
LANGDON James Harvey (23 Nov 1819 - 27 Jun 1842)
LANGDON Sarah (1 Oct 1821 - 15 Dec 1825)
LANGDON Cynthia (23 Aug 1823 - 9 Jan 1861)
LANGDON Harriet (25 Jul 1825 - 1919)
LANGDON Cyrus Stebbins (5 Jan 1828 - 1 Feb 1864)
LANGDON John Phelps (8 Dec 1829 - 19 Nov 1897)
LANGDON Elam Chester (31 Mar 1832 - 17 Jan 1907)
LANGDON Edwin Mattoon (20 Dec 1834 - 26 Jul 1847)
LANGDON Henry Archer (28 May 1839 - 13 May 1876)

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