Person:Octavus Langdon (1)
Octavus Augustus Langdon
b.8 Aug 1812 Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
d.1856 Alexandretta, Syria (now Iskenderun, Hatay,Turkey)
Parents and Siblings
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m. 26 Aug 1794
  1. Rebecca Cordis Langdon1795 -
  2. John Walley Langdon1796 -
  3. Mary Frances Langdon1797 - 1798
  4. Joseph Langdon1799 -
  5. Charles Frederick Langdon1801 -
  6. Mary Haswell Langdon1804 -
  7. Charlotte Elizabeth Langdon1808 -
  8. Octavus Augustus Langdon1812 - 1856
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Facts and Events
Name Octavus Augustus Langdon
Gender Male
Birth[1] 8 Aug 1812 Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Christening[2] 14 Nov 1813 Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Death[1] 1856 Alexandretta, Syria (now Iskenderun, Hatay,Turkey)
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 STUDENTS. 1821., in Biographical Catalogue of the Trustees, Teachers and Students of Phillips Academy Andover 1778-1830. (Andover, Massachusetts: The Andover Press, 1903)
    121.

    Octavus Augustus Langdon, 9, Boston. *1856

    Son of John Walley Langdon and Rebecca Cordis;
    brother of John W., 1812, and Charles F., 1813.
    Born in Charlestown, Aug. 8, 1812, as attested by his names.
    — At Miss Newman's.
    Left 1826.
    — Merchant in Smyrna, 1 Asia Minor.
    Died at Alexandretta, Syria.

    1 N.P. Willis, P.A. 1821, visited Mr. Langdon in 1833, referring to him in one of his stories as "an old school-fellow of my own, one of the most distinguished and hospitable of the Smyrniote merchants." In another story, he describes a tour made with Mr. L. in Asia Minor, Rev. Josiah Brewer, P.A. 1814, being also of the party.

  2. ↑ "Records of the First Church", in Hunnewell, James Frothingham. A century of town life : a history of Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1775-1887: with surveys, records and twenty- eight pages of plans and views. (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1888)
    Vol. 9, p. 230.

    1813.
    Nov. 14. ...
    Octavus Augustus. John W. & Wife. Langdon [baptized]

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