(Christian Guardian) Mrs. A.L. Langford was born Elizabeth Stobbs, eldest child of late Rev. Thomas Stobbs, mother was sister of Rev. Dr Lachlan Taylor and aunt of Chancellor Nathaniel Burwash. She was married in 1891 to Professor A.L. Langford and died on Aug 27 1922 at St. John's Hospital in Toronto Ontario. She was survived by her husband and only son Arthur Leopold.

In 1850 Rev. Thomas Stobbs was a replacement with Rev. Samuel Fear in Chatham.

He was young man who had not had great previous advantages of mental training, and who had scarcely expected ever to enter the full ministry of the Word, yet who, when called upon, left his secular occupation without gainsaying and came in unclerical attire to the circuit.

But he had been savingly converted a few years before in the north of England, where he had been afterwards appointed to a local preacher, whence he had come out to a relative in one of the western townships of the Province not long before being employed.

But then, he was naturally gifted, had a good voice, a warm heart, a commanding person, and a great zeal for God and souls.

Need I say, that such a young man, under the direction of such a Superintendent as Rev. Samuel Fear, was well received and succeeded well among the fervent-minded Methodists of that circuit.

His probation was spent at Victoria College.

...from the minutes of the 1850 Wesleyan Methodist Conference in Toronto C.W.