Strong, Jedediah – Struble, George R
Strong, Jedediah
congressman, was born Nov. 7, 1738, in Litchfield, Conn.
He was a delegate from Connecticut to the continental congress from 1782 to 1784. He died June 21, 1802, in Litchfield, Conn.
Strong, John
pioneer, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born Aug. 16, 1738, in Coventry, Conn. He represented Dorset in the Vermont legislature in 1779-82, and served as assistant judge of Bennington county in 1781-82. He returned to his old home in Addison, Vt., in 1783; sat again in the legislature in 1784-86; was first judge of the county court in 1785- 1801, and judge of probate in 1786-1801.
He died June 16, 1816, in Addison, N. Y.
Strong, Josiah
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 19, 1847, in Naperville, Ill.
Since 1886 he has been general secretary of the Evangelical alliance for the United States. He is the author of Our Country, of which nearly two hundred thousand copies in English have been sold. He is also author of The New Era of the Coming Kingdom; and other works.
Strong, Julius L
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Nov. 8, 1828, in Bolton, Conn. He was a member of the Connecticut legislature for two years. In 1859 he was elected a representative from Connecticut to the forty-first congress; and was re-elected to the fortysecond congress as a republican. He died Sept. 7, 1872, in Hartford, Conn.
Strong, Latham Cornell
journalist, poet, was born June 12, 1845, in Troy, N. Y. He was a journalist and verse-writer of Troy, N. Y.; and the author of Castle Windows; Pots of Gold; Poke o' Moonshine; and Midsummer Dreams. He died Dec. 17, 1879, in Tarrytown, N. Y.
Strong, Luther M
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born June 23, 1838, near Tiffin, Ohio. He enlisted as a private in the fortyninth Ohio volunteer infantry early in 1861, and was elected captain of company Gand promoted to major and lieutenantcolonel. He was senior officer of the regiment and in command thereof from about the time of the fall of Atlanta until after the battle of Nashville; and resigned March 13, 1865, on account of a wound. He is a successful lawyer of Kenton, Ohio; was a member of the board of education for many years; and was elected to the senate of the state of Ohio in 1879 and re-elected in 1881. He was appointed judge of the court of common pleas by Governor Charles Foster to fill a vacancy; and was elected to the fifty-third and re-elected to the fiftyfourth congress as a republican.
Strong, Nathan
was born Oct. 16, 1745, in Coventry, Conn. He was a congregational clergyman of Hartford; and the author of Sermons; The Doctrine of Eternal Misery Consistent with the Infinite Benevolence of God. He died Dec. 25, 1816, in Hartford, Conn.
Strong, Nehemiah
educator, clergyman, author, was born Feb. 24, 1730, in Northampton, Mass. In 1770 he became the first professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Yale, which chair he held till 1781. He published Astronomy Improved. He died Aug. 12, 1807, in Bridgeport, Conn.
Strong, Selah Brewster
lawyer, jurist, legislator, was born May 11, 1792, in Brookhaven, Mass. He served in the war of 1812 and was made captain of his regiment in 1815. He took his seat in congress in 1843, and in 1846 was elected judge of the supreme court, and served until 1860. He died Nov. 29, 1872, in Setauket, N. Y.
Strong, Simeon
lawyer, jurist, was born March 6, 1736, in Northampton, Mass.
He was a representative in the general ccurt of Massachusetts in 1767-69; a state senator in 1793, and a judge of the state supreme court in 1800-05. He died Dec. 14, 1805, in Amherst, Mass.
Strong, Solomon
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman. He was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1815 to 1819; was a member of the state legislature in 1812, 1813, 1843, and 1844; and was judge of the court of common pleas from 1818 to 1842. He died Sept. 6, 1850.
Strong, Stephen
congressman, congressman, was born in Connecticut. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1845 to 1847.
Strong, Theodore
educator, author, was born July 26, 1790, in South Hadley, Mass. He was a professor of mathematics at Rutgers college in 1827-63; and the author of Treatise on Elementary Algebra; and On Differential and Integral Calculus. He died Feb. 1, 1869, in New Brunswick.
Strong, Theron Rudd
state legislator, congressman, was born Nov. 7, 1802, in Salisbury, Conn. He served in the assembly of New York from Wayne county in 1842; and was a representative in congress from New York from 1839 to 1841. He died May 15, 1873, in New York city.
Strong, Thomas Morris
clergyman, author, was born April 20, 1797, in Cooperstown, N. Y. He was a pastor of the Dutch reformed church in Flatbush, L. I., from 1822 till his death. He published a History of the Town of Flatbush. He died June 14, 1861, in Flatbush, L. I.
Strong, Titus
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 26, 1787, in Brighton, Mass.
He was an episcopal clergyman of Greenfield, Mass.; and the author of Tears of Columbia, a Political Poem; Candid Examination of the Episcopal Church; The Deerfield Captive; and The Young Scholar's Manual. He died in June, 1855, in Greenfield, Mass.
Strong, William
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born May 6, 1808, in Somers, Conn. He was elected from Pennsylvania to the thirtieth and thirty-first congresses. In 1857 he was elected a judge of the supreme court of Pennsylvania for fifteen years; and resigned that position in 1868 and returned to the bar. In 1870 he was appointed an associate justice of the supreme court of the United States.
Strong, William
lawyer, jurist, was born in Vermont. He was an early emigrant to the territory of Washington; and was appointed an associate justice of the United States for that territory.
Strong, William
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born in Windham county, Conn. He was a representative in congress from Vermont from 1811 to 1815, and again from 1819 to 1821.
He was for eight years sheriff of Hartford county; and was judge of the same county. He was a member of the state legislature for eight years.
Strong, William Emerson
soldier, merchant, was born Aug. 10, 1840, in Granville, N. Y. In 1865 he was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers. He was inspector-general of the Freedmen's bureau from 1865 till 1866, and from 1867 till 1873 was secretary of the Peshtigo Lumber company in Chicago, Ill., of which he has been president since the latter year.
STROTHER, DAVID HUNTER-Porte Crayon-soldier, artist, author, was born Sept. 16, 1816, in Martinsburg, Va. (now W. Va.). He was an artist of Berkeley Springs, W. Va., once popular as a magazinist. During the civil war he was a colonel in the union army, and in 1865 he was brevetted brigadier-general. He was the author of The Blackwater Chronicle; and Virginia Illustrated. He died March 8, 1888, in Charleston, W. Va.
Strother, George F
lawyer, congressman, was born in Culpeper county, Va. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1817 to 1820, when he was appointed receiver of public moneys at St. Louis, Mo.
Strother, James F
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 4, 1811, in Culpeper county, Va. He served ten years in the legislature of Virginia, and was speaker during the sessions of 1847 and 1848. In 1850 he was a member of the convention which framed the present constitution of the state; and was a representative in congress from 1851 to 1853. He died Sept. 20, 1860, in Culpeper county, Va.
Stroud, George Mcdowell
lawyer, author, was born Oct. 12, 1795, in Stroudsburg, Pa. He was a Philadelphia jurist who published Sketch of Laws Relating to Slavery in the Several States. He died June 29, 1875, in Germantown, Pa.
Stroup, Charles Addison
clergyman, lecturer, was born July 31, 1872, in Southington, Ohio. He has attained success as a clergyman and lecturer, and now fills a pastorate in the First Congregational church of Mesopotamia, Ohio.
Strouse, Myer
lawyer, journalist, congressman, was born Dec. 16, 1825, in Germany. In 1862 he was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirtyeighth congress; and was re-elected to the thirty-ninth congress.
Strout, Sewall Cusing
lawyer, jurist, was born Feb. 17, 1827, in Wales, Maine. He is one of Maine's oldest and successful lawyers; and is now associate justice of the supreme court of Maine.
Strowd, William F
farmer, congressman, was born Dec. 7, 1832, in Orange county, N. C. He is a farmer of Pittsboro, N. C. He was nominated by the populists for congress in 1892 in the fourth congressional district; and was again nominated by the populists in 1894, and was elected to the fifty-fourth and fiftyfifth congresses as a populist.
Struble, George R
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born July 25, 1836, in Sussex county, N. J. He has been circuit judge of the eighth judicial district of Iowa; and is one of the foremost. lawyers of that state at Toledo. He served with distinction as a member of the eighteenth and nineteenth general assemblies of Iowa; and was speaker during his second term.
In 1896 he was a delegate to the republican national convention, held in St. Louis, Mo.; and for the past quarter of a century has been prominently identified with the political affairs of Iowa.