Denver County, History of Colorado, BIOS: STRAUB, Louis (published 1918)
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"History of Colorado", edited by Wilbur Fisk Stone, published by The S. J. 
Clarke Publishing Co. (1918)  Vol. II

p. 45-46


LOUIS STRAUB.

	One of the most prominent and popular figures in hotel circles in 
the west is Louis Straub, the proprietor and manager of Hotel Midland 
and also of the Great Northern Hotel of Denver. He is thoroughly 
familiar with everything required in modern hotel management and 
displays a most progressive spirit in the conduct of his interests. His 
life is an expression of that enterprise which has been the dominant 
factor in the rapid and substantial upbuilding of the west. He was born 
in Wathena, Kansas, February 25, 1869, a son of Alexander and Katherine 
(Frein) Straub. The father was an engineer and has now passed away. In 
the family were four sons: E. G., Frank, Charles and Louis.

	The last named, the youngest in the family, was educated in the 
public schools of St. Joseph, Missouri, and has been a resident of 
Denver since 1885. Here he resumed his education, attending the 
Arapahoe street school for two years. After his textbooks were put 
aside he turned his attention to the hotel business and found in it a 
field of labor that has proven most congenial and also profitable. For 
a time he was hotel clerk for others, being connected with the Palmer 
House in an early day. He has engaged in business on his own account, 
however, since 1888 and has been at his present location for sixteen 
years. He has been identified with the Great Northern Hotel for a 
quarter of a century and owns and manages both the Great Northern Hotel 
and Hotel Midland. The former is located at 1612 Larimer street and the 
latter at the corner of Seventeenth and Arapahoe streets. Both are 
popular hostelries, liberally patronized, being conducted according to 
most progressive methods of modern hotel keeping.

	In 1890 Mr. Straub was united in marriage to Miss Rosie Corbett, 
a native of Denver, and they have one son, Thomas P., twenty-four years 
of age, who was associated with his father in the hotel business. He 
enlisted, June 15, 1918, in the United States Aviation service, and is 
now at the Officers' Training Camp, Fort Collins. Fraternally Mr. 
Straub is an Elk, holding membership with Lodge No. 17, at Denver. He 
was appointed by Mayor Arnold in 1913 to the position of alderman of 
the third ward and in May, 1917, was elected a member of the new city 
council from the seventh district. He is an independent democrat in 
politics, for while he usually votes with the party, he does not 
consider himself bound by party ties. He is a man of fine personal 
appearance, affable and genial in manner, forceful and resourceful in 
business, and is known as one of the leading and popular hotel men of 
the west. His entire life has been devoted to this business and he has 
studied everything bearing upon success in hotel management. His plans 
are always carefully defined and promptly executed and he has put forth 
every effort to please, recognizing that satisfied patrons are the best 
advertisement.