BIO: FRANK P. STROCK, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 263-264
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    FRANK P. STROCK is senior member of the firm of F. P. Strock & Co., dealers
  in furniture, located at No. 27 South Hanover street, Carlisle, a house of
  reliability and business enterprise, one of the leading ones in the city. It
  was established March 2, 1901, and occupies three floors of the present
  building, the dimensions of which are 120 x 28 feet, with two additional
  storage buildings used as warehouses. A full line of first-class reliable
  furniture of all kinds is carried, as well as pictures and frames of all
  kinds. The firm is composed of F. P. Strock and E. R. Hutton, both old
  "knights of the grip."
    
    Frank P. Strock is a native of Cumberland county, Pa., born March 5, 1864,
  and was reared in Carlisle. His parents, Jacob H. and Angeline (Fissel)
  Strock, were both residents of Carlisle. Mr. Strock was educated in the
  public schools and in 1876 entered the mercantile establishment of John E.
  Burkholder, as a clerk, and remained some four years, going then in the same
  capacity to Niles M. Fissel, with whom he continued two years. He then spent
  three years learning the trade of carriage trimming, after which he engaged
  as a clerk in the dry-goods establishment of Leidigh & Birnie, going later to
  J. W. Plank. About one year afterward he left Carlisle and engaged with the
  dry-goods house of Lyter & Fahnestock, at Harrisburg, as manager, continuing
  with that firm five years. Mr. Strock then went out as a traveling salesman
  for three years, at the end of that period locating at Sacramento, Cal.,
  where he had charge of the silk and dress goods department of the house of
  Wienstock, Lubin & Co., for one year. Upon his return to Carlisle he was
  again employed with Mr. Plank for some two years, and then embarked in his
  present business. His long experience in dealing with the public has given
  him confidence and thorough comprehension of what best pleases the buyer, and
  with this knowledge and a pleasant, accommodating manner, and honest,
  first-class goods, he has made his personal venture a complete success.
    
    In politics Mr. Strock is an ardent Democrat and a very useful member of
  his party. He belongs to a number of fraternal organizations, the Masons, the
  Royal Arcanum, the P. O. S. of A., and the B. P. O. E., No. 578, being a
  charter member of the latter. In 1859 the Empire Hook and Ladder Co. of
  Carlisle was formed, and although but a lad of eleven years he joined the
  organization, in which he has ever since been active, has. served as trustee
  and secretary, and it, November, 1902, was elected president.
    
    CUMBERLAND COUNTY.  264
    
    In 1885 Mr. Strock was married to Maud Josephine Reese, a daughter of John
  M. Reese, of Harrisburg, and they have one son, Leroy, still a student. Mr.
  and Mrs. Strock belong to the Lutheran Church, liberally contributing to its
  support. He is one of the progressive and public-spirited men of the city and
  is justly held in esteem.