Greene County IN Archives Biographies.....Stropes, E. R. 1836 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   E. R. STROPES, a member of one of the oldest and most honored families of
Greene County, and the present County Treasurer, was born in Richland Township
May 22, 1836. He is the youngest of four sons and one daughter of Adam and
Penlope (Lockwood) Stropes, and has always made his home in Greene County. When
eighteen years old, he began teaming from the old Richland Furnace, which he
continued two years; then began clerking in the dry goods store of his two
brothers at Bloomfield. On the election of J. B. Stropes as an official of the
county, E. R. assumed the partnership vacated by his brother, and has since been
almost constantly identified with the business interests of Bloomfield. November
5, 1863, he was married to Miss Maggie, daughter of Henry Van Slyke, one of the
pioneers of Greene County, to which marriage four children have been born— Henry
V., Mary, Frankie, and one that died in infancy unnamed. Mr. Stropes is one of
the liberal public men of Bloomfield, and is a member of the Masonic
brotherhood, in which he has advanced to the Royal Arch degree. In political
matter, the Stropes family have differed considerably. Adam Stropes, the father
of the subject of this memoir, was a Whig, and one of the early County
Commissioners; J. B. was a Democrat, and for four years was Treasurer of the
county; J. L. is a Republican, and was the nominee of his party at one time for
County Sheriff; W. P. served for four years as a Democratic Auditor, and E. R.
was elected County Treasurer in 1882 on the Democratic ticket, taking charge of
the office in the fall of 1883. The family throughout has been very popular, and
be it recorded to their credit that the name has never been tainted with a
dishonorable act.

Additional Comments:
Richland Township Biographies

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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

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