John Lange, Jr., (standing) Blind Boone's manager, and Blind Boone.

ID: 346 ~ Source: https://collections.shsmo.org/index.php/manuscripts/columbia/p0164 ~ Creator: Unknown ~ Date: Undated

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John Lange, Jr., (standing) Blind Boone's manager, and Blind Boone. — https://collections.shsmo.org/index.php/manuscripts/columbia/p0164

https://collections.shsmo.org/index.php/manuscripts/columbia/p0164

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…