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Straub, Christian M – Stringham, James S

Straub, Christian M

congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1853 to 1855.

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.

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.

Street, Randall S

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born in 1780 in Catskill, N. Y. In 1810 he was appointed district attorney for New York, and was reappointed in 1813. Soon afterwards, as major and lieutenant-colonel, he served in the army during the war with England.

He was a representative in congress from New York from 1819 to 1821. He was promoted to the rank of general of the militia. He died in 1841, in Monticello, N. Y.

Street, Thomas

author, poet, was born Nov. 29, 1821, in Gunthorp, Ohio. He has contributed extensively to the periodical press; and his poems have appeared in Poets of America and other standard works. He is a prominent citizen of Vineland, N. J.

Strickland, O. F

lawyer, jurist. He was an early emigrant to Utah; and was appointed associate justice of the United States court for that territory.

Strickland, Randolph

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Feb. 4, 1823, in Danville, N. Y. He was prosecuting attorney for Clinton county, Mich., during 1852-62; and was elected to the state senate in 1861 and 1862. He was elected a representative from Michigan to the forty-first congress.

Strickland, Theron C

author, was born Nov. 24, 1859, in New York state.

He is prominent as a teacher in commercial schools and colleges; and is the author of The Twentieth Century Shorthand.

Strickler, Minnie May

writer, poet, was born July 4, 1869, in Neosho Rapids, Kan. She has contributed both stories and verse to the periodical press; and her poems have been a valuable acquisition to current literature.

Stringer, Samuel

physician, was born in 1734 in Maryland. He settled in Albany, N. Y., and in 1775 was appointed director and physician of the hospitals of the northern department, and authorized to appoint a surgeon for the fleet that was then fitting out upon the lakes. He died July 11, 1817, in Albany, N. Y.

Stringham, James S

physician, lecturer, was born in 1775 in New York city. He was professor of chemistry in Columbia in 1802-13, and of medical jurisprudence in the college of Physicians and Surgeons from 1813 till his death. He was the first to lecture here on the latter science, and may be regarded as its founder in the United States. He died June 28, 1817, in St. Croix, W. I.