Bio of Struble, Stephen (b.1828) Wabasha Co., MN
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1884.
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Struble, Stephen, one of the wealthiest farmers of Plainview township, is
a native of Ohio, and was born about twelve miles northwest from
Cincinnati, on August 24, 1828. His father, Joseph Struble, was a son of
one of the first settlers in that part of Ohio, and was also born in the
same county. His mother was the daughter of a Hamilton county farmer by
the name of Street, and was one of a family of ten children, all living.
Mr. Struble received a common-school education, and engaged in farming,
removing with his parents in 1846, to Columbus, Indiana. At the age of
twenty-one, he and a brother received the title to three hundred acres of
land in Indiana. He continued to occupy this farm until 1867, when ill
health induced him to dispose of this place, and seek a more salubrious
climate. This he found on Greenwood prairie, where he bought three hundred
and twenty acres of land on section 16, in Plainview, from C. O. Landon,
and has ever since continued to make it his home. His residence, which
cost him over four thousand dollars, and is one of the finest farmhouses
in Wabasha county, is surrounded by a beautiful grove of young evergreens
and fruit-trees, and is situated one mile and a quarter east of Plainview.
He makes a specialty of stock-raising-horses and hogs-and has ample barn
accommodations for his extensive business in this line. His farm
buildings, including his house, have cost him more than nine thousand
dollars. He was married to Emily J. Graves, daughter of Lyman Graves, of
New York State, March 17, 1853. The following children have been born to
them: Elva (Mrs. J. C. Pope, of Lac qui Parle county); Alice (Mrs. Hayden
French, of Big Stone county); Edward L., farmer, of Plainview township;
George, Delia, Orlando, Grace, Xenia and Stephen Wayne, at home. Mr.
Struble is a democrat in politics, has been a supervisor, and is at
present a member of the Plainview school-board. His religious views are
expressed by the creed of the Universalists.