LANGSTAFF, William Leslie 1855-1945

LANGSTAFF, OWEN, JULIAN

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 7/31/2009 at 15:39:41

FORMER NORTH IOWA SALESMAN DIES
W. L. Langstaff to Be Buried in Family Lot

CHARLES CITY, IOWA -- The remains of William Leslie Langstaff, 90, a pioneer citizen of Charles City and Floyd county, will be brought to Charles City early this summer for interment in the Langstaff lot in Riverside cemetery, according to information received here Monday.

Five burials are recorded in the Langstaff cemetery lot here. Memorial services were held in South Pasadena on November 12.

He was born in Janesville, Wisconsin on December 5, 1855, the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. William Langstaff, and came with his parents to Charles City in 1856.

In 1881 he owned and operated a mercantile store in Belmond and later at New Hampton. He then moved to Charles City where he began his life work as a commercial traveling salesman, which he continued until 1941 when his health compelled him to retire and he went to Pasadena to make his home with his youngest daughter, Mrs. J. L. Greeley.

At the time of his retirement he was one of the few remaining veteran salesmen on the road and well known throughout the entire middle west.

Besides Mrs. Greeley, two other daughters survive, Mrs. Nellie Owen, of Omaha, Nebraska, and Mrs. J. C. Hepfinger of Seattle, Wash.; also two grandchildren, Mrs. Edwin Julian and Edward R. Owen; and 5 great grandchildren: Kay Audrey, William Owen, Robert, and Richard, and Ned Allan Julian, all of Omaha.

[Mason City Globe Gazette - Tuesday, Jan. 8, 1946]