JULIUS LANG, County Treasurer and merchant, is a native of Germany, and emigrated to America in 1849. He first located in New York, where he engaged in his trade of shoemaking, subsequently engaging in the boot and shoe trade in Brooklyn, which he continued for seventeen years. He next moved to Kendallville, when he embarked in the boot and shoe business, and which he is still conducting. He was elected Treasurer of Noble County in October, 1880, and is now serving in that capacity. Mr. Lange has served the city of Kendallville as Councilman for two terms, and as Treasurer of the Board of Education for three years. He ranks as one of the solid substantial business men of Kendallville, and, as a citizen, is progressive and enterprising. He was united in marriage, in 1850, to Miss Katherine Dietrich. They have eight children now living--Emily Bohn, a resident of Michigan; Henry, Julius, Herman,George, Louisa, Minerva and John.
Counties of La Grange and Noble, Indiana, Historical and Biographical, Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, © 1882, Part 2, p. 307-308.
Transcribed by Denise Wells, May 2013.