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Charles Langdon was born on 13 August 1849. He was [[Olivia Langdon Clemens|Olivia Langdon]]'s younger brother and Samuel Clemens' brother-in-law.  

Samuel Clemens and Charles Langdon met during the [[Quaker City Excursion]] in 1867 when Langdon was eighteen years old and quickly came to admire Clemens (see [https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/FIZ6WARP Rasmussen et al. 2:759]). This aquaintance eventually led to the first meeting between Clemens and Olivia Langdon in the same year and to their subsequent courtship and marriage. 

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After the death of his father Jervis Langdon in 1870, Charles took over the family business in coal and lumber (see [https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/DTBLRBCJ LeMaster and Wilson, MTE 440]). He married Ida Clark and the couple had three children together: a son, Jervis, and two daughters, Julia and Ida (see [https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/DTBLRBCJ LeMaster and Wilson, MTE 440]).  
Although Samuel Clemens and Charles Langdon were not always the closest of friends, their family ties - and the Clemens family's frequent summer stays in [[Elmira/Quarry Farm]] in Elmira - resulted in a cordial and mutually respectful relationship. Langdon was present at the death of [[Olivia Susan Clemens]] in 1896 and at Clemens' own death in 1910 (see [https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/FIZ6WARP Rasmussen et al. 2:759]).  
Charles Langdon died on 19 November 1916 in Elmira, N.Y..


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