Samuel Daly Langtree

(Born: ca. 1811 - Died: September 8, 1842)

Physician, editor and farmer. Born in Ireland, he was the son of Rev. Matthew Langtree and Catherine Daly. He emigrated to the United States in 1832 as a physician on an English ship. He married Mary O’Sullivan on July 30, 1834. Along with his brother-in-law, John L. O’Sullivan, Langtree founded the United States Magazine and Democratic Review, but retired to life as a Virginia planter at the end of 1840. He died at Bacon’s Castle, Surry County, VA of “bilious fever.”