Santa Clara County Biographies


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ROBERT J. LANGFORD, 
 
who carries on a meat market at No. 726 South Second Street, San Jose, is a son 
of Pleasant S. and Sarah (Henderson) Langford, and was born in Washington 
County, Iowa, in 1851, and his parents with their five children crossed the 
plains with ox teams in 1852 and located at once in Santa Clara County. He 
attended the public school of Los Gatos until eighteen years of age, and later 
attended the University of the Pacific. When twenty-four years of age, on 
account of his health not being strong enough to continue his studies, he 
engaged in farming, and two years afterward commenced in the meat-market 
business, in which he has continued with fair success. In 1886 he purchased a 
place of ten acres on the Senter road four miles north of San Jose. This he has 
planted equally to cherries and apricots.
        Mr. Langford was married, in 1876, to Miss Frances Freeman, a native of 
Illinois, who came to California with her parents when a child. They have had 
three children, one of whom died in 1883. Those living are: Arthur and Leo. Mr. 
and Mrs. Langford are members of the Christian Church. In politics he is a 
Republican.
 
Pen Pictures From The Garden of the World or Santa Clara County, California, 
Illustrated. - Edited by H. S. Foote.- Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 
1888.
Pg. 623