Strait, Horace B – Street, Augustus Russell
Strait, Horace B
soldier, manufacturer, banker, congressman, was born Jan. 26, 1835, in Potter county, Pa. He was elected mayor of Shakopee, Minn., in 1870, and re-elected in 1871 and 1872. He was elected to the forty-third, fortyfourth, forty-fifth, forty-seventh, fortyeighth and forty-ninth congresses.
Strait, Thomas Jefferson
soldier, state senator, congressman, was born Dec. 25, 1846, in Chester, S. C. He was elected state senator from South Carolina in 1890; and was elected to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses, and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress.
Stranahan, Mrs. Clara Harri- Son
author, poet, was born in Westfield, Mass. She received her education in northern Ohio, and subsequently attended the Mount Holyoke seminary and the Troy Female seminary. Her best known work is A History of French Painting from Its Earliest to Its Latest Practice. She is also the author of a large number of fugitive articles and poems, which have been a valuable acquisition to current literature. In 1870 she became the wife of the Hon. J. S. T. Stranahan, of Brooklyn, N. Y., a member of the United States congress, who is known as the first citizen of Brooklyn.
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Stranahan, James Samuel Thomas
capitalist, congressman, born April 25, 1806, in Peterboro, N. Y.
He settled in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1844.
In 1854 he was sent as a whig to congress, and served from 1855 till 1857.
He was a member of the first Metropolitan police commission in 1858, and delegate to the republican national conventions in 1860 and 1864. Brooklyn is indebted to him more than any other man for Prospect park, the Ocean parkway, Eastern parkway, and the city's beautiful system of boulevards. He died in 1896.
Strange, John Tedrick
farmer, lawyer, was born April 7, 1850, in Arcana, Ind. He received a thorough education, and after five years at Wabash college graduated from that institution in 1877.
He is a prominent lawyer of Marion, Ind.; was a delegate to the national convention of 1896 held at Chicago; and takes an active part in the public affairs of his city, county and state. was
Strange, Robert
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, United States senator, author, was born Sept. 20, 1796, in Virginia. He served a number of years in the North Carolina state legislature; in 1826 was elected a judge of the superior court; and held the office until elected a senator of the United States in 1835. He was subsequently appointed solicitor for the fifth judicial district of the state. He was the author of a novel entitled Eoneguski; or, the Cherokee Chief. He died Feb. 19, 1854, in Fayetteville, N. C.
Strange, Willoughby Temple
lawyer, politician, was born Sept. 6, 1860, in Charlottesville, Va. He is a son of the confederate states general, John B.
Strange of Virginia, who was killed in the battle of Sharpsburg in 1862. He received his education at the William and Mary college of Williamsburg, Va.; at the Richmond college; and at the university of Virginia. He is one of the foremost lawyers of Texas, and a leading politician of Dallas, where he takes an active part in the public affairs of his city, county and state. In 1897 he was made chairman of the congressional campaign committee of the sixth district of Texas.
Strattan, Oliver H
lawyer, author, was born July 14, 1827, in Jennings county, Ind. He received his education in the public schools, at the Hanover college, and from private tutors in Carrollton, La Grange, and Versailles, Ky.
In 1864 he was admitted to the Kentucky bar; and has attained success in his profession in Louisville, Ky., where he has continuously lived since 1849. During 1851-58 he was clerk of the board of aldermen; and the four succeeding years was a clerk in one of the local courts of Louisville. He has contributed extensively to the periodical press; and is the author of Industrial Economy, and various other works.
Stratton, Charles C
state legislator, governor, was born in 1796 in New Jersey. He served a number of years in the state legislature; and was a representative in congress from New Jersey from 1837 to 1839, and again from 1841 to 1843.
He was governor of New Jersey from 1844 to 1848. He died March 30, 1859, in Gloucester county, N. J.
Stratton, Charles Carroll
clergyman, college president, was born Jan. 4, 1833, in Mansfield, Pa. In 1887 he accepted the presidency of Mills college, Oakland, Cal. He was a delegate to the general conference of the methodist church in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1872, and to that in Cincinnati in 1880.
Stratton, Charles Sherwood
dwarf, was born Jan. 4, 1838, in Bridgeport, Conn. He was known by the name of Gen. Tom Thumb. When first exhibited by Barnum he was not more than two feet high, and weighed less than sixteen pounds; but as he grew older his height increased to forty inches. In 1863 he married Lavinia Warren, also a dwarf forty inches in height and fifty pounds in weight. They were the wonders of the world. He died July 15, 1883, in Middleborough, Mass., and was buried in Bridgeport, where a marble shaft forty feet in height was raised to his memory.
Stratton, Henry Dwight
educator, was born Aug. 24, 1824, in Amherst, Ohio. With Henry B. Bryant he established the Bryant and Stratton business colleges, which at the time of his death numbered more than fifty, located in the principal cities of the United States and Canada. He died Feb. 20, 1867, in New York city.
Stratton, John
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1801 to 1803.
Stratton, John L. N
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1817 in Mount Holly, N. J. In 1858 he was elected a representative from New Jersey to the thirtysixth congress; and was re-elected to the thirty-seventh congress.
Stratton, Nathan T
congressman, was born in New Jersey. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1851 to 1855.
Straub, Christian M
congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1853 to 1855.
Straus, Isidor
merchant, congressman, was born Feb. 6, 1845, in Bavaria. In 1865 he moved to New York city, where his father founded the mercantile firm of Straus and Sons in 1866. He has been connected with the various tariff and currency reform movements, and is New York city's representative on the New York and New Jersey bridge commission. He was elected at a special election as a representative to the fiftythird congress to fill a vacancy. mer-
Strauss, Oscar Solomon
chant, diplomat, author, was born Dec. 23, 1850, in Bavaria. He is a municipal reformer of New York city, minister to Turkey in 1887; and the author of The Origin of Republican Government in the United States; and Roger Williams, the Pioneer of Religious Liberty.
Strawbridge, James D
soldier, physician, congressman, was born in 1824 in Montour county, Pa. He entered the army as a brigade-surgeon of volunteers, and served throughout the war. He resumed the practice of medicine after the close of the war, in Danville, Pa.; and was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-third congress as a republican.
Strayhorn, Robert Jasper
farmer, jurist, was born Oct. 6, 1835, in Haywood county, Tenn. He is a successful farmer and ranchman of Snyder, Texas.
He has been county commissioner, county judge; and filled various other public positions of trust. STREATOR, WORTHY STEVENS, railroad president, state senator, was born Oct. 16, 1816, in Hamilton, N. Y. In 1870 he was elected president of the Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling railroad; but in 1878 he took the vice-presidency, which position he has since retained. He was a state senator in 1868-72, and, under the appointment of President Hayes, internal revenue collector at Cleveland in 1879-85.
Street, Alfred Billings
author, poet, was born Dec. 18, 1811, in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He was a poet of Albany, and state librarian of New York from 1848. His writings include, Frontenac; Woods and Waters; Forest Pictures; The Burning of Schenectady, and Other Poems; Drawings and Tintings; Fugitive Poems; and Digest of Taxation in the United States. He died June 2, 1881, in Albany, N. Y.
Street, Augustus Russell
donor, was born Nov. 5, 1791, in New Haven, Conn. He presented to Yale its school of the fine arts, one of its finest buildings, Titus Street professorship in the theological department. He died June 12, 1866, in New Haven, Conn.