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David Lang was born in Camden County, Georgia, on May 9, 1838. He attended the Georgia Military Academy in Marietta, where he graduated in 1857. Lang then moved to Florida with his family, where he worked as a surveyor in Suwannee County. He served in the First Florida Infantry Regiment, organized and was elected captain of a new company that became Company C of the Eighth Florida Infantry Regiment, and temporarily commanded the entire Florida Brigade, surrendering at Appomattox in April 1865.
After the war, Lang married Mary Quarles Campbell and they had four children. He worked as a civil engineer before his appointment as Adjutant General of the State Militia (1885-1894). Lang also served on the State Board of Pensions, was private secretary for Florida Governors Mitchell (1893-1897) and Bloxham (1897-1901, and worked as a cashier of the Florida State Hospital in Chattahoochee from 1901 until his death in 1917.
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The collection consists of Lang family correspondence and photographs. It includes ten letters written by David Lang (1864-1889), a letter from Lang's wife to him (1887), photographs of Lang's family and friends, primarily from Cedar Key, Florida (ca. 1880-1900), and an invitation to the wedding of Lang's only daughter (1891).
Land wrote the letters to his wife, Mary Quarles Campbell, and his daughter, Helen Augusta Lang, when he was in Tallahassee during the Constitutional Convention of 1885. The correspondence reflects the proceedings of the convention as well as personal and financial matters. Lang's letters to his father-in-law, Dr. Joseph Decatur Campbell, include a letter requesting Mary Campbell's hand in marriage in 1864 and three letters detailing her illness and subsequent death in 1889.
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For more materials related to David Lang and his family, see Collection M84-28, David Lang Letterbooks, 1886-1889, 1893-1909 (.5 cubic foot) and Collection M88-18, David Lang Civil War Letters, 1862-1864 (.25 cubic foot).
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Florida Constitutional Convention (1885)
Constitutional conventions Florida Family Florida Weddings Florida.
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Cedar Key (Fla.) Florida Politics and government 1865-1950 Tallahassee (Fla.)
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