Part 6Robert Charnley may have been a prosperous farmer of many acres when (or if ) he married Isabella abt 1840. As with a lot of Charnleys the marriage is not found. Isabella's fortunes are unknown. What is known is she came from a long line of Langstroths dating back to 1464. http://colegenealogy.net/pdf/LANGSTROTH-William.pdf. This alone shows that back then they were a family of some wealth. I once found a reference to 'Langstroth Hall' in Yorks or Westmoreland, (lost it again). Isabella's cousin Craven Langstroth decided to emigrate to New Brunswick, Canada, some time before 1828. Wasn't there some conflict with the British govt about then ? He married there.
Going back to Thomas Langstroth born 1745 in Langstrothdale Yorks emigrated to Pennsylvania about 1776. Following his family through 2 generations of Johns in Mexico and California we reach Ivan Shed Langstroth 1887 - 1971. Shed being his mothers maiden name. He attained fame as a composer and concert pianist and toured Europe. Few people would know his works unless really interested in choral or chamber music. However he did write a Song of hope (1967) "We want Ronald Reagan." Dated: 31 March 1967, New York City.
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http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=tf596nb1w7&doc.view=entire_text&brand=oac Ivan Shed Langstroth, American composer, pianist, and teacher, was born in Alameda, California on October 16, 1887. He received his early musical training in San Francisco with Theodore Vogt, then in Berlin at the Hochschule fur Musik. His teachers were Paul Juon and Engelbert Humperdinck in composition and Josef Lhevinne in piano.
After his student days he remained on the continent. In 1915 he was a coach at the Kiel opera, and in 1916 he served as organist at the American Church in Berlin. Between 1917 and 1920 he toured Scandinavia as a concert pianist, then settled in Vienna where he taught composition and theory at the Neue Wiener Konservatorium from 1921 until 1928.
Returning to the United States he taught at Chatham Square Music School in New York, City College, and Brooklyn College. Langstroth died in New York City on April 18, 1971.
Just before his passing, Langstroth gave all of his works to Henriette de Saussure (Blanding) Lehman, his friend and patroness, who lived in Palm Springs, California, with the understanding that they would be deposited with a California institution.
In January, 1974, Benjamin H. Lehman, emeritus Professor of English at Berkeley, who carried out Henriette's trust, presented the Langstroth papers to the Music Library.
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