Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 8-B, 1887 Floyd County JOHN W. LANGLEY was born January 14, 1863, in Floyd County, Ky., and is a son of Joseph R. and Susan (Click) Langley. Joseph R. Langley was born in Wise County, VA., in 1834, has been a merchant, farmer and local Christian minister, and lives one and one-half miles north of Prestonburg, Ky., and is the owner of 2,500 acres. Joseph Langley, grandfather of John W., came from Virginia and settled in Floyd County, Ky., in 1836 or 1836; James Click, maternal grandfather of our subject, was born in 1793, and is of German origin. John W. Langley was reared in Floyd County, Ky., until 1882, when he went to Washington, D.C., where he held an appointment in the Interior Department, and the same year entered Columbia Law School in 1884 he graduated from the National Law University, and in 1886 took the post-graduate degree, winning the first prize at graduation, and the second prize with the ad eundem degree. In 1886 he was admitted to the practice of the law, when he returned to his native county, and in August, 1887, was elected representative of Floyd and Johnson Counties. He is a member of the I.O.O.F., and in politics is a Republican. Langley Click = Wise-VA Johnson-KY Washington-DC http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/floyd/langley.jw.txt