14' PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOSTON-CAMBRIDGE MEETING 



Leaving West Virginia, he went to 'New York City, where he opened 

 an office as consnlting geologist and engineer. While in this business his 

 attention was directed to landscape architecture, and he gradually drifted 

 into this line of work, for which his early experiences in his father's gar- 

 dens gave him a natural bias, and he soon rose to eminence in his profes- 

 sion. His first work in this new line was in Princeton, Kew Jersey, but 

 he always kept his office in N"ew York. His landscape plans were carried 

 out for several estates in the counties of Long Island and in New Jersey 

 and Pennsylvania. He designed and executed the great West Side Park 

 in Jersey City, and also the park at Harrison, Few Jersey, both being 

 parts of a scheme of parks in Hudson County, New Jersey. He was a 

 charter member of the American Society of Landscape Architects, which 

 was organized about 1898. In 1901 he went abroad to collect photo- 

 graphs for a book on Italian Gardens which he was to prepare for 

 Forbes & Co., publishers, but by reason of some disagreement between 

 himself and the publishers, he withdrew, and his name did not appear in 

 connection with the book. 



Naturally gifted with artistic tastes, these were developed in his land- 

 scape work, and after his marriage, in August, 1896, to Berenice Francis, 

 herself an artist and pupil of Eodin and St. Gaudens, their home in 

 Few York became a meeting place for artists alike of pen and pencil. 



Both Langton and his wife were brilliant talkers, and their associates 

 were all of congenial spirits. After changing his residence to Morris- 

 town, New Jersey, where he built a home, he still kept open house for his 

 artist friends, and week-end meetings of these were as a matter of course. 

 His offices remained in the city. With these surroundings, however, he 

 never lost his early love for geology, and he was often heard to wish that 

 he could afford to go back to the old delightful occupation. 



He was a firm believer in the power for good of college associations, 

 and was very active in organizing at the University of Alabama the 

 Sigma Nu fraternity, of which he was regent from 1885 to 1890. To 

 the end of his life he took great interest in this fraternity, and attended 

 its meetings whenever it was possible. Along with his interest in the 

 fraternities went a larger interest in university men as such, and we find 

 him a member of the University Club in the cities in which he lived for 

 any length of time. 



He was fond of argument and could generally find something to say 

 for his side of the question, and it must be confessed that not infre- 

 quently his side would be that opposed to the common opinion. This, 

 together with his usually emphatic way of expressing his views, gained 

 for him the reputation of being somewhat eccentric. 



