LANGLEY, Edward Jr. (1874-1935) was active in Toronto before 1900 and was the son of Edward Langley Sr. His uncle was Henry Langley, a leading architect in Toronto from 1860 to 1900. Edward Jr. was born in Toronto in 1874 and he served a five year apprenticeship under Edmund Burke from October 1892 to October 1897. A copy of his Indenture agreement is now held in the Horwood Collection at the Ontario Archives in Toronto. During this period, he submitted an entry in the local student design competition held in 1894 for “A Town House & Stable”. His design, signed with the pseudonym “Colonial”, received the 3rd Prize, and was sponsored by The Canadian Architect & Builder magazine (C.A.B., vii, April 1894, p. 45 ff., full page plate illus.).
After the death of his father in Los Angeles in 1897, Edward Jr. studied at the School of Practical Science at the University of Toronto, but shortly after 1900 he moved to New York City, and then to Scranton, Pennsylvania where he opened an office under his own name in 1902, and he had a successful career there for thirty years. He later died in Coronado Beach, California on 2 May 1935 while on a vacation (obituary Scranton Times, 2 May 1935, 1; with editorial tribute 11 May 1935, 6). He left a generous estate valued at $104,000 to the American Institute of Architects in Washington which was used to establish the Edward Langley Scholarship Fund (descrip. in The Octagon [A.I.A., Washington], June 1936, 6; Engineering & Contract Record [Toronto], xlix, 20 May 1936, 443; R.A.I.C. Journal, xvi, Jan. 1939, 23; inf. Mrs. Mary Langley Campbell, Richmond Hill, Ont.). A detailed biography, list of works, and photographic portrait of Edward Langley Jr. was published in the Scranton Republican [Scranton, Penn.], 10 April 1916, p. 16 and p. 26, and illustrates his most important architectural commission there, the 8 storey Scranton Life Insurance Building, a local landmark clad in white cut stone, built 1914-16.