John Lange Jr., on the left, and Blind Boone.

ID: 319 ~ Source: Kansas City Sun, December 5, 1914 ~ Creator: Unknown ~ Date: December 5, 1914

This file appears in: Blind Boone in Warrensburg

John Lange, Jr., on the left, and Blind Boone.

This file appears in: Blind Boone in Warrensburg

Blind Boone in Warrensburg

By University of Central Missouri Department of History, Dr. Jon E. Taylor

John Lange, Jr., was born enslaved in Harrisburg, Kentucky on October 4, 1840 to a free man and an enslaved mother. During the Civil War he worked with his father as a butcher and at the end of the Civil War the Lange family moved to Columbia…