FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: STRAIT, Dennis B. (published 1880)
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History of Franklin and Pickaway Counties,  Ohio
Pub by Williams Bros.,  1880

DENNIS B. STRAIT,

county commissioner,  was born in the State of New Jersey,  on May 20, 
1824.  He is the second of a family of eleven,  the children of Abraham
A. and Dulcena Strait,  who removed to Franklin County in 1839.  They
located in Plain township,  and here the mother died,  not long after. 
The father died in June,  1862.

The education of the gentleman who is the subject of this sketch,  was
acquired at common-schools,  and was quite limited,  owing to the fact
that his parents were in indigent circumstances,  and his being obliged
at an early age,  to seek his own living.  At the age of twenty years he
struck out to battle with fortune,  having rough but strong hands,  and
a brave heart to aid him.  Accumulating some means he sought and
obtained the hand of Miss Ann,  daughter of Caleb and Eliza Farber,  to
whom he was married on November 20,  1851.  Soon after he purchased one
hundred acres of land in Plain township,  this county;  this,  by
industry and economy on the part of Mr. Strait,  aided by his good
wife,  has been added to,  until he now owns six hundred and twenty-five
acres,  the greater part of which is under a profitable state of
cultivation.  His life work has been that of a farmer and stock raiser. 
Of the public life of Mr. Strait,  the writer learns that he was first
elected county commissioner in the fall of 1860,  and served two terms
of three years each.  Upon the expiration of the second term he was
appointed auditor of Franklin County,  and in this capacity he served
two years.  In the fall of 1876,  he was a third time elected to the
office of commissioner,  his term expiring the fall of 1879. 
Politically,  Mr. Strait is a firm adherent to the teachings of the
Democratic party.  For the past twenty years he has been a member of the
society of Free and Accepted masons.

His children are:  Whitney,  Cordelia (Mrs B. Ranney),  Ann Eliza,  and
Dulcena and Edward L. who are deceased.


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