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

Samuel Strock, farmer, section 10, Sterling Township, is the son of Samuel and 
Elizabeth (Lehman) Strock, natives of Pennsylvania, and life-long residents of 
that State. Five of their seven children lived to mature age, namely: Mary A., 
Daniel, Catherine, Samuel and John L. Samuel was born Aug. 21, 1834, in 
Franklin Co., Pa., and was an inmate of the paternal home until he was 22. In 
the spring of 1856, he came to Illinois, and first went to Carroll County, 
where he worked three years as a farm laborer. In 1859 he took possession of a 
rented farm which he occupied four years. At the expiration of that time he 
bought a farm, which he conducted until the spring of 1865, when he sold it 
and bought 160 acres of land in Hopkins Township, Whiteside County. Two years 
afterward he again sold out, and in the spring of 1867 he bought the farm on 
which he has since resided, and which then included 100 acres of land. His 
property now includes 662 acres of land in the townships of Sterling and 
Hopkins, which is chiefly under cultivation. He has erected valuable buildings 
on his homestead. Mr. Strock is a Republican in political sentiment. He was 
married Feb. 3, 1859, in Mt. Carroll, Carroll County, to Mary A., daughter of 
Joseph and Elizabeth (Hershey) Emmert. Her father and mother were natives of 
Maryland, and their 11 children lived to years of maturity. They were born in 
this order: Susan, Christine H., Andrew H., John J., Josiah, Alfred R., 
William, Mary A., Elizabeth H., Catherine and Louisa. Mrs. Strock was born May 
2,1838, in Maryland. To her and her husband seven children have been born, who 
are named Millard A., Allison E., Homer C., Arthur W., Otto E., Linius L. and 
Ada E. Arthur W. died when between two and three years of age. Mrs. Strock is 
a member of the German Baptist Church.

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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