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Stringham, Silas Horton

naval officer, was born Nov. 7, 1798, in Middletown, N. Y. In 1809 he became a midshipman in the United States navy. He passed through all the grades, and was made a rear-admiral on the retired list in 1862.

Strode, Joseph

public official, was born in 1815. He is the oldest postmaster in continual service in the United States; and since 1845 has been postmaster of Strode's Mills, Pa.

Strohm, Gertrude

author, was born in 1843 in Ohio. She is a writer living near Dayton, Ohio; and the author of Word Pictures; Universal Cookery Book; Flower Idyls; and The Young Scholar's Companion.

Strohm, John

state legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 16, 1793, in Lancaster county, Pa. In 1831 he was elected a member of the legislature of his native state, serving three sessions in the house and eight in the senate, during one term as speaker. He was a representative in congress from 1845 to 1847, and for a second term ending in 1849.

Strong, Augustus Hopkins

clergyman, college president, author, was born Aug. 3, 1826, in Rochester, N. Y. He is a baptist clergyman of Rochester, N. Y., president of the Rochester Theological seminary from 1872; and the author of Systematic Theology; and Philosophy and Religion.

Strong, Abigail Spurr

reformer, was born Aug. 23, 1811, in Annapolis, N.

S. Her whole life was spent in religious and reformatory work in Brooklyn, Boston, and St. Paul, Minn., where she now resides.

Strong, Daniel Gates

educator, college president, clergyman, prohibitionist, was born Aug. 10, 1838, in Kenton, Ohio. During the civil war he was chaplain in the fourth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry; has been president of the Wilbur Collegiate college of Lewiston, Idaho; was a delegate to the general conference of 1880; and in 1892 was a candidate on the prohibition ticket for lieutenant-governor of the state of Washington.

Strong, George Crockett

soldier, author, was born Oct. 16, 1832, in Stockbridge, Vt. He was a general in the federal army during the civil war who fell in the assault on Fort Wagner; and the author of Cadet Life at West Point.

He died July 30, 1863, in New York city.

Strong, George Templeton

lawyer, was born Feb. 26, 1820, in New York city. During the civil war he was treasurer and one of the executive committee of the United States sanitary commission, in which capacity he rendered valuable service. He died July 21, 1875, in New York city.

Strong, Henry

lawyer, financier, railroad president, was born in 1829 in Scotland. He soon became widely known as a lawyer and financier, through his connection with various railroad corporations as general or consulting attorney, including the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, the Des Moines Valley, the Union Pacific, and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé, of which last named company he was president.

Strong, James

congressman, was born in 1783 in Windham, Conn. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1819 to 1821, and again from 1823 to 1831. He died Aug. 8, 1847, in Chester, N. J.

Strong, James

clergyman, author, was born in 1822 in New York. He was a methodist clergyman and educator of eminence, and professor in Drew seminary at Madison, N. J., from 1868. His writings include English Harmony of the Gospels; Greek Harmony of the Gospels; Irenics; The Tabernacle of Israel; Sacred Idyls; Future Life; Jewish Life; Our Lord's Life; Commentary on Ecclesiastes; and Concordance of the Bible. He died in 1894.