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LANGDON, ADDISON L. was born in New Haven, Conn., in the year 1842. He came to Chicago with his parents about the year 1846, in which city he spent the earlier years of his life. Upon the opening of the Douglas University he entered one of the first classes, but remained only a short time; afterward he entered the Kimball Seminary, in Rockford, Ill., and left that educational institution, at the age of 15 years, to pursue a course at the Bryant & Stratton College, in Chicago; soon after this he associated himself with his father in the businessof manufacturing wood type and other printers’ machinery and material; soon after the death of his father, which occurred in 1857, he came to Quincy and became associated with his brother in the publication of the Whig newspaper, and he continued his connection with that establishment until 1867, when he withdrew his interest and entered the service of the United States, in the Internal Revenue department, receiving his appointment under Abraham Lincoln; in 1871 he established the Quincy Commercial Review, of which paper he is still proprietor. During the past fifteen or twenty years Mr. Langdon has compiled and published four directories of the city of Quincy, six different histories of the city, and one of the towns of Adams county. He was for twelve years Secretary of the Adams county central Republican committee; served for nine years as Oil Inspector of the city; is now Secretary of the Gem City Telegraph Institute, United States Internal Revenue Gauger, and publisher of the Review. Mr. Langdon, during the past ten years, has received many offers of positions on the metropolitan press; but he seems wedded to the Gem City, of which he has written many columns of praise.