Biographical Sketch of George Strop, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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George Strop, brick manufacturer, was born August 5, 1837, at 
Tuscarawas, Ohio, and from there he went, when eight years old,
with his family to the state of Kentucky, where he was raised, and
remained up to 1865.  He then came West, and located in this city,
and worked at different brick yards.  After three years, in 1868,
he was enabled to open a brick yard on his own account, and carried
on the same successfully.  In 1877, he purchased a farm of 120 acres
in Andrew County, Missouri, where his family resides.  This he im-
proves, besides tending to his brick yard at St. Joseph.  In 1861,
he was married to Miss Elizabeth Conrad, of Kentucky.  They have had
ten children, seven of whom are living.

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