BIO: H. A. T. Strohm, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.

                             CHAPTER LIII.

                            NEWTON TOWNSHIP.

524  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  H. A. T. STROHM, merchant and justice of the peace, P. O. Walnut 
Bottom.  The grandfather of this gentleman came from Germany about the 
close of the Revolutionary war, and settled in Lancaster County, 
removing fifteen years later to this township.  He afterward sold his 
farm here, and went to Ohio.  He had nine children:  David, Samuel, 
Peter, Mary and Rebecca, deceased; and Levi, Philip, Henry and 
Elizabeth, living.  Levi, father of our subject, was born in 1820, and 
was married, in 1851, to Julia A. Coffey.  For twenty years he was a 
merchant, having four stores in Leesburg and in the adjoining 
townships, and was also engaged in other enterprises.  In 1877 he gave 
up merchandising and retired to his farm in Southampton Township, where 
he now lives.  He is an active and prominent citizen of the township; 
he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  They 
had ten children, four of whom, Nora, Agnes, Flora and Mary, are 
deceased; the others are James J., married to Maggie Baker, and living 
in Leesburg; William B., married and living in Chambersburg; Wallace 
L., single and living at home; Abby A., wife of Rev. S. M. Mountz, of 
Centre County; Clara, living with her parents; and Henry A. T., who was 
born June 13, 1852, who went into his father's store when quite young, 
and stayed there until he was twenty-five.  In 1877 he began business 
for himself at Rehoboth, and in 1879 removed to Jacksonville.  October 
22, 1878, he was married to Martha M., daughter of Thomas Price, 
merchant of Lykens, Dauphin County, a coal miner and operator, also, in 
Somerset County, and a prominent man.  Mrs. Strohm was born in 1854.  
They have had three children:  Martha, born October 8, 1879, died in 
infancy; Lottie Esther, born June 6, 1882, and Charles O., born 
November 24, 1884.  Mr. Strohm is a Democrat in politics, in which he 
takes an active interest, and is now justice of the peace in 
Jacksonville.  He is spoken of as an enterprising, active and 
trustworthy man, who must rise in the community.