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Below is a family biography included in The History of East Tennessee published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1887.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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N. C. Langford, a practicing physician, at Leadvale, Tenn., was born in Blount County, January 9, 1835, the son of James L. and Ruth (Gamble) Langford. James L., a native of North Carolina, was a Baptist minister, and when a young man came to Tennessee, the native State of his wife. Our subject was quite young when his parents both died, and he then became a member of the family of I. M. Newman, of Jefferson County. Little of his time was spent in school, and most of it was given to hard farm work. In winters he was at Mossy Creek College, long enough to finish the course, at twenty-two. He then began the study of medicine, under Dr. W. M. F. Helm, of Jefferson County. In 1859-60 he attended the medical department of the University of Tennessee, and in 1861 he entered the Confederate Army, and was a captain, serving all the war time, and surrendering with the army of Joseph E. Johnston. He practiced medicine then for a year, in his Tennessee home, and for the next nine years engaged in merchandising. He has since resumed his practice, however, for the last ten years. He is a Royal Arch Mason, and a Knight of Honor, and is also a member of the Baptist Church. He is an earnest Democrat.

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This family biography is one of 938 biographies included in The History of East Tennessee published in 1887.  For the complete description, click here: History of East Tennessee

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