Sources: Family records, letters and obituaries. He was born 19 Jan 1805 in England.He was a builder and married at 17 and came to N.Y.State where he prospered till 1837 and then moved to Detroit where he lived nearly 60 years. He built up a brick mason business and through investments became fairly wealthy. He left a legacy of 300 dollars. We have no knowledge of the death of his first wife but obituaries of others say that she died in about 1839. Then when he died we found that he was survived by a wife (obituary).His second wife was born in about 1817. Died at age of 90 in 1895. ----------------------------------------------------------------- OBITUARY in Newspaper. Late Henry Langley The late Henry Langley who died at his residence 97 Adams Ave. East, July 8 at the age of 90 years was a man of sterling integrity and of great force of character. Born in Rochester England, a suburb of London in 1805. He received a fair education in a Quaker school, although his parents were adherents of the Church of England. He followed his father's occupation of mason and builder and at the age of 17 he married and started a business for himself. Accumulating some capital and a few years later emigrated to Duchess Co, N.Y. where he prospered but in 1837 came to Detroit. It was not long before his thorough workmanship judgement and industry gave him an active and profitable business. He was the first brick mason in this community who understood the proper construction of furnace retorts and lofty chimneys a number of which with faulty construction he was called to rebuild For some years in wild-cat and speculative times, with out altogether abandoning his trade in the city he indulged in some farming experience in the eastern part of the state, always pleasant but seldom profitable to him. he finally confined himself more consistently to building brick buildings in the city. Judicious investments of his earnings in real estate eventually built up the considerable fortune he left to his descendants. Mr. Langley himself never held any public office but that of school inspector. Wm H. Langley, after whom Langley Ave. is named was the first president of the Board of Public Works' His living children are Miss Sarah Ann Langley of Detroit, Mrs Eliza Ann Royce of Sioux City, Iowa, Mrs Geo. W. Scott of Sharon, Wis. Henry W. Langley of Nancik, Wayne Co. Mich. Mrs Sidney B. Dixon of Detroit, George I Langley of Detroit and Mrs W.J.Higham of Detroit. ( continues ) ----------------------------------------------------------------