Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Strouse, Reed C.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Richland Township N-Z


   REED C. STROUSE boot and shoe dealer, P.O. Quakertown, is 
a native of Tinicum township, this county, and was born in 
1856.  His great-grandfather was Jacob Strouse, who came 
from Germany.  He had a son Jacob, who married Catherine 
Horwick, who bore him one child, Elias.  Elias married 
Marian Kruger, of Haycock township, this county.  This 
couple were the parents of nine children, four sons and five 
daughters.  Reed C. was reared on a farm and attended the 
common schools, remaining on the farm till he was 21 years 
old, when he commenced clerking in a store, which occupation 
he continued till 1885.  He married in 1885 Jennie, daughter 
of Joseph and Rebecca (Dames) Jefferies, of Chester county, 
this state.  They have no children.  In 1885 Mr. Strouse 
established his present business.  He carried a fine line of 
all kinds of ladies' and men's boots and shoes.  He is a 
member of the Knights of the Golden Eagle and of the Red 
Men.  In politics he is a democrat.