John Strouss and Annie McCoy

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Husband John Strouss ^{1 2 3}

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           Born:  - Germany
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         Father: David Strouss (      -      ) 3
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       Marriage: Aft 1815

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   Other Spouse: Mary Schnip (      -1815) 4 - 10 Sep 1795 4

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   Other Spouse: Ann Cloud (      -      ) 5

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Wife Annie McCoy ⁴

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            AKA: Mrs.  McCoy 5
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1 M William Strouss ^{4 5}

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2 M James Strouss ^{4 5}

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3 M Henry Strouss ^{4 5}

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General Notes: Husband - John Strouss

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He was born in Germany, came to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, when eight years old, and died near Clinton, Allegheny County, at the age of ninety years. He was by trade a millwright. He was the founder of the Hopewell Presbyterian church of Allegheny county, was a plain, straightforward man, a strong Presbyterian and an elder in the church. He built the Potato Garden Mill, still known as the Strouss Mill, and hauled the buhrs from Philadelphia. These French stones were later in the Hookstown mill.

He was born in Germany and with his two brothers came to America, where they all became American citizens.

He moved to Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, in 1806. He was a mill-wright by trade, but as he grew older, country life and bucolic charms increased in attractiveness to him, and he started west for his fortune. He pitched his family tent on a little creek in Allegheny County, about twenty miles northwest of Pittsburgh, later the junction of Allegheny, Beaver and Washington counties. There he spent the remainder of his days. When asked by his children later in life, why he did not settle nearer the confluence of the two rivers, he would reply: "I could see no great advantages then. Pittsburgh was only a few houses near an old fort. One cart load of produce would supply its daily demand, and if we shipped down the river we were obliged to walk back or row up stream, which was slower and harder work than walking." So he concluded to go farther into the country and establish a little kingdom of his own.

He erected a flouring or grist mill on a farm known as the Potato Garden. He was a practical farmer and went west in search of wheat land; instead of buying near Allegheny City, which was then only a small village, he sought land on a higher elevation and away from the river and fog. Here on this farm, he lived happily and attained the advanced age of ninety-six years.

1 —, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 894.

2 —, Book of Biographies, Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899), Pg 153.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 298.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 301.

5 —, Book of Biographies, Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899), Pg 154.