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Interesting name Langhorne, maybe related in some way to Samuel Langhorne Clemens aka Mark Twain.
Not quite. It involved another person:
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The village became known as Attleborough until 1876, when it was incorporated and named for Jeremiah Langhorne, an early resident of the area and former chief justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
Jeremiah Langhorne (died 1742) was a prominent landowner and jurist in colonial Pennsylvania. He is the namesake of present-day Langhorne, Pennsylvania, which adopted his name in 1876, and neighboring Langhorne Manor.
A Quaker, Langhorne settled with his family in Bucks County in 1684. Records show that he purchased 7,200 acres (29 km2) there in 1724. He represented Bucks County in the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly, of which he served twice as Speaker. He was a justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court from 1726, and served as chief justice from 1739 until his death in 1742.
[edit] While the above is accurate as it relates to the town of Langhorne in Pennsylvania, I looked up in a biography of Mark Twain (a/k/a Samuel Langhorne Clemens) that his middle name "Langhorne" was selected by his father as a tribute to a family friend who had lived in Virginia.
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