Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... 
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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

John C. LANG, editor of the Joliet Republican, Joliet, is a son of Thomas J. LANG, one of the 
early settlers of Will County, who emigrated from Groton, N. H., to this county in 1836, and 
settled in the town of Frankfort; afterward removed to Plainfield, where he now resides. John 
C. LANG was born in Frankfort, Will Co., March 24, 1844; in 1862, he entered the Union army 
as a member of Co. D, 100th I. V. I., and served till the close of the war, participating in 
all the arduous service and all the battles of that, regiment, and returning with it in 1865. 
He then spent two years on the farm, and, in 1867, made the trip via the Isthmus and 
California, to Arizona Territory, where he remained three years, engaged in mining, and 
in the employ of the Government in the Quartermaster's Department; in July, 1870, after 
his return from the West, he entered the employ of the Illinois State Penitentiary, in this
city, occupying successively the positions of Guard, Keeper, Assistant Deputy, and Deputy 
Warden, until October, 1874; from December, 1874, to August, 1875, he was employed on the 
Joliet Record, since which time he has been editor of the Republican. He was married Nov. 
19, 1874, to Miss Emma WEBSTER, of Joliet, and has two children - Francis M. and Horace W.