Leonard Langell was born in Berks county, Pa., in 1799, his father Casper Langell emigrating to Ohio in 1802, and thence to East Union township, settling where Edinburg now is in 1814-15. He purchased lands from John Rider and gave the west quarter to Leonard, who at the age of eighteen built the grist mill in 1817, now known as the old factory. Casper built a brick house in Edinburg in 1816, which was the first hotel between Wooster and New Philadelphia. He had seven children, two of whom were sons, named Leonard and Daniel. Leonard came to Wayne county with his father who was a farmer, and was married to Catherine Rhinehart, of Jefferson county, about 1823, and had five children, to wit: John C., Susanna, Elias, Daniel and Henry. Susanna, the wife of Daniel Snyder, died March 24, 1868. John C. Langell lives on the old farm and is married to Delilah Smith; Elias was married to Eliza Weber and lives near Apple creek; Henry married Ann Seacrist and lives in Franklin township. He died on the morning after the June 4th frost, 1859. His sister Mary married Henry Swart, of Blackleyville, Plain township.
Daniel Langell, Sr., son of Casper and brother of Leonard, came to Wayne county with his father, and was the youngest of the family. Here he remained until 1824, when after some changes, he removed to Williams county, Ohio, where he was elected Sheriff, and while serving in this capacity superintended the hanging of old Tyler, a fortune-teller, for murdering a boy. He died in that county.
Daniel Langell, discoverer of the celebrated Asthma and Catarrh Remedy, was born in East Union township July 9, 1832. He was raised on a farm until he was eighteen years of age, when he went to Wooster and learned the chair-making business with Spear & Beistle. He returned to the farm again and was prostrated by asthma, from which for nine years he was a constant sufferer. He spent all his money and his farm in doctoring it, with little or no relief; and finally by a series of experiments discovered a remedy that cured him, and that since has become a boon to thousands and attained to an almost world-wide celebrity. Doctor Langell was married December 3, 1857, to Margaret Sloan of Saltcreek township, and has five children. He is a member of the Presbyterian church, and is distinguished for the simplicity of his life and his scrupulous honesty, industry and integrity.
Source: History of Wayne County, Ohio from the Days of the Pioneers and First Settlers to the Present Time, Ben Douglass, Indianapolis: Robert Douglass, Publisher, 1878, pp. 622-623.
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