Albert S. Lang (1853-1920) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and died in Los Angeles, California. By 1860 he was living with his family in Lawrence, Massachusetts, where he became a carpenter and in 1876 married Mary A. Lang (b. Walsh). Sometime before 1880 they moved to Atlanta Township, Kansas, where Albert worked as a farmer, but they returned to Lawrence by the mid-1880s and he became a carpentry contractor. Albert was the youngest son of Alfred and Susan S. Lang and the brother of Susie M. Lang, 1849-1922. Alfred and Susie were both students of Mary Baker Eddy who were important in the early Christian Science movement in Boston and Lawrence. Albert studied Christian Science with Susie. In the latter 1880s Albert was a member and president of The Free Church in Lawrence founded by William I. Gill, a student of Eddy who served briefly as assistant pastor of the Church of Christ (Scientist) in Boston and then departed from the teachings of Christian Science. Albert became a member of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Lawrence, and he and his wife Mary both joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston on January 1, 1898. They moved to Los Angeles sometime after 1910. Mary died in 1917, and in 1919 Albert married Catherine Lang (b. Davis) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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