Charles Henry Langston

1817 - 1892

• Born	31 Aug 1817	Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, Virginia   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Died	24 Nov 1892	Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas   [2, 3]
  Buried	Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas
  Person ID	I149	Nashville
  Last Modified	20 Jun 2009

  
  

  Father	Ralph Quarles,   b. 1764, Spotsylvania County, Virginia ,   d. 1834, Louisa County, Virginia
  Mother	Lucy Jane Langston,   b. 1780,   d. Oct 1834, Louisa County, Virginia
  Family ID	F47	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Mary Patterson,   b. 1836, Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina ,   d. 1915
  Married	Jan 1859	Elyria, McPherson County, Kansas   [2]
  Children	1. Desalines W. Langston,   b. abt. 1857, Ohio   2. Nathaniel Turner Langston,   b. 1870 > 3. Carolina Mercer Langston,   b. 18 Jan 1873, Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas
  Last Modified	20 Jun 2009
  Family ID	F226	Group Sheet

  
  

• Headstones

  Headstone: Charles Henry Langston Find A Grave Memorial# 35607331

  
  

• Notes

  was an abolitionist moved to Kansas in 1862 & settled in Lawrence in the 1880s. [2] "figured prominently in the Oberlin-Wellington rescue of September 13, 1858. Along with Simeon Bushnell, he was found guilty of inciting an Oberlin mob to rescue fugitive slave John Price from a kidnapping attempt. At his trial, Charles Langston delivered an eloquent speech condemning the fugitive slave law, a speech which influenced the eventual reversal of his conviction."

  
  

• Sources

  [S42] From the Virginia plantation to the national capitol, or, The first and only Negro representative in Congress from the Old Dominion, John Mercer Langston, (American Publishing Company, 1894), http://books.google.com/books?id=Ro8hAAAAMAAJ., 19. [S135] Scott, Mark. "Langston Hughes of Kansas." Kansas History 3 (1980): 3-25. http://www.kshs.org/publicat/history/1980spring_scott.htm. [S137] Tombstone Inscription.