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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.

SAMUEL was 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.