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William Valpied Langlois and Mary Ann King were the first white family to settle along Floras Creek near Port Orford, Oregon. They had at least eight children: six sons and two daughters. Two of their sons entered the Lighthouse Service and a third married the daughter of another light keeper. In 1849, William went to California to try his luck with the gold rush, but he eventually returned to Oregon to become a dairyman and farmer. He was described as a man of “unusual integrity and character.” William died in 1883, two years after the town of Langlois, Oregon was named after him and his son Frank. (Photo courtesy Kari Kandoll from Pioneer History of Coos and Curry Counties, Oregon by Orvil Dodge, 1898.)
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How the West Was Won
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