George Langlois

LANGLOIS

Posted By: Clay County IAGenWeb Coordinator (email)
Date: 11/21/2010 at 14:03:08

Langlois, George, farmer and stock breeder, was born on the Island of Guernsey, Dec. 7th, 1854, and moved to Racine, Wis., where he lived until 1881, when he moved to Clay county, and purchased 540 acres of land in Douglas township. This he has improved, and has under a fine state of cultivation. He has a large and comfortable house, good sheds, stables and granaries, and everything needed for a comfortable and pleasant-home. He is the owner of some very fine specimens of full blood short-horn cattle, the best strains of Poland China hogs and some pure blood Clydesdale horses. These animals are all beauties, and are pronounced to be the very best of their kind. Mr. Langlois has met with extraordinary success in stock breeding, and has a field of horses, cattle and swine that cannot be surpassed by any breeder in the West. He has taken just pride and pains in producing these animals, and has used more than ordinary precaution in getting the very best animals. He has sold a great many of these, and those who have seen them and know what an animal is, do not hesitate to pronounce them superior both as breeding and quality to any exhibits in Northwestern Iowa.

Source: A History of Clay County, by W. C. Gilbreath, 1889.