San Joaquin County Biographies


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FRED LANGHORST.
 
        Since 1877 Fred Langhorst has been a resident of San Joaquin County, 
where he now resides and owns a beautiful and highly productive almond orchard. 
He was born in Westphalia, Germany, on January 11, 1853, the sixth in a family 
of eight children born to Christian and Doris Langhorst, the names of the 
children being as follows: Mary, Conrad, Minnie, William, Marie, Fred, our 
subject, Sophie and Lena, the last two being twins. The father was a farmer in 
his native country and passed away there at the age of eighty years; the mother 
also lived to be about eighty years old.
        Fred Langhorst from his youth was trained to the work of the farm, 
assisting in its development through the summer months, while in the winter 
seasons he went to school. When he was fifteen years old, his sister, Minnie, 
was coming to Beardstown, Cass County, Illinois, to be married, and so our 
subject prevailed on his parents to let him come along. Upon arrival in 
Illinois, Minnie Langhorst became Mrs. Heitcamp. Fred Langhorst remained in 
Illinois for six years working for wages, meantime becoming an American citizen. 
At the end of that time he returned to his German home for a visit of a few 
months, then returned to Illinois and worked for wages for three more years, 
then in 1877 came to California and settled at Lodi, where he has since 
continuously resided. For three years after his arrival in San Joaquin County, 
he worked for Christ Beckman as a farm hand. In October, 1880, at Lodi, he was 
married to Miss Flora Blass, a native Californian, born in Tuolumne County near 
Columbia, and there she was reared and educated. Her father passed away when she 
was too young to remember him and subsequently her mother, Mrs. Minnie Blass, 
married John Fox; a miner in the Columbia gold mines. After his marriage, Mr. 
Langhorst settled five miles southeast of Lodi on the corner of Alpine Road and 
Harney Lane, and there bought 160 acres of land which he farmed for twenty-one 
years, and then sold it and moved to Lodi. He then rented a five-acre almond 
orchard from Ida Hill and later purchased a ten-acre almond orchard on South 
School street, later on selling five acres of it. He is a Republican in national 
politics and fraternally a member of the I. O. O. F. and Knights of Pythias and 
with Mrs. Langhorst is a member of the Rebekahs, Mrs. Langhorst having been 
recording secretary of the latter for the past five years; she is also recording 
secretary of the Pythian Sisters lodge of. Lodi.
 
History of San Joaquin County, California � Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 
1923
p   1380       
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.