GUY M. LANGLEY

Guy M. Langley, who is successfully engaged in agricultural pursuits on section 14, Sugar Creek township, is a native of New York, born on the 9th of March, 1870, in Rose, Wayne county. There his parents, Samuel and Maggie (Brisbane) Langley, have spent their entire lives. The father was engaged in farming until his retirement from active labor. Their family consisted of three children, of whom Guy M. is the oldest, the others being Eugene, now a resident of Rochester, New York, and Lillian, the wife of Earl Barnes of North Rose, New York.

In the city of his nativity Guy M. Langley passed his minority, there receiving a good practical education and early acquiring an excellent knowledge of agricultural pursuits. In 1893 he came west and, after spending some time at the World’s Fair in Chicago, proceeded to Cedar county, Iowa, where he has since made his home. He has made farming his life occupation and is today operating a tract of eighty acres on section 14, Sugar Creek township, which is a part of his father-in-law’s estate. He has met with success in the cultivation of the soil and is a progressive and up-to-date farmer.

In 1895 Mr. Langley was united in marriage to Miss Mary E. Rorick, who was born on the 29th of September, 1861, and by her marriage has become the mother of five children, namely: Mabel, William, Frank, Edith and Irwin. William Rorick, the father of Mrs. Langley, was born in Hanover, Germany, December 25, 1818, but at an early age crossed the Atlantic and became a resident of Ohio in 1837. Five years later he was united in marriage to Miss Lydia Wise, who, after a short married life, died leaving two small children. In the spring of 1851, in company with his children, he came to Iowa and was here married June 20, 1852, to Miss Julia Pirkey, who passed away on the 14th of July, 1892. He survived her about three years and died April 9, 1895, at the age of seventy-six years, three months and fourteen days. His children were: Lucinda, the wife of William Allen of Jefferson, Iowa; John, a resident of Iowa City, Iowa; James, of Inland township, Cedar county; William, who was residing on the old homestead in Sugar Creek township at the time of his death, which occurred October 7, 1909; and Mary E., now Mrs. Langley. Mr. Rorick became one of the prosperous farmers of his locality, owning at the time of this death four hundred acres of fine farming land on sections 10, 11 and 14, a portion of which he had entered from the government. He was a man of exemplary habits and was an earnest Christian. At the age of fourteen years he united with the Lutheran church but soon after coming to Iowa joined the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he continued a member throughout the remainder of his life. He took an active part in all church work and was a man honored and esteemed wherever known.