Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Strock, J F 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

J. F. Strock, member of the firm of Dillon, Bowers & Strock, proprietors of 
the Rock Falls Roller Mills, Sterling, was born in Franklin Co., Pa., May 4, 
1844, his parents being Daniel and Mary (Over) Strock, natives also of that 
State. Mr. Strock, senior, a manufacturer of agricultural implements, came to 
Sterling in 1864. The subject of this biographical sketch remained at his 
parental home until he was 25 years of age, receiving a common-school 
education. At the age of 20 he entered a hardware store at Chambersburg, Pa., 
as clerk, remaining one year. He then came to Sterling and engaged as clerk 
for Patterson, Witmer & Co., continuing for three years, and then accepted a 
position in the interests of the Sterling School Furniture Company, continuing 
for eight years. He is an active and influential business man, a Republican, a 
member of the A. O. U. W., Select Knights and the Lutheran Church, to which 
latter organization his wife also belongs. Mr. Strock was married Sept. 14, 
1869, to Miss Martha, daughter of Joel and Rachel (Cole) Harvey, natives of 
New York and early immigrants to Sterling. By this marriage there have been 
three children, two of whom are still living,—Willoughby C. and John F. After 
the death of Mr. Harvey, Mr. Strock took charge of his estate and business 
affairs, and did not engage in any other business until 1882, when he bought a 
third interest in the Rock Falls Roller Mills, where he has since been 
interested.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois, Containing Full-
page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens of the County. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1885.

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