BIO: A. K. STRANGE, Huntingdon County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Dave Wilson Copyright 2007. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************************** __________________________________________________________ McElroy, James Thomas Jr., McElroy's Family Memories, Huntingdon, PA: (Author), 1930, page 198. __________________________________________________________ REV. A. K. STRANGE, A.B. McAlevy's Fort, Pa. Minister, United Presbyterian Church: The Rev. A. K. Strange was born at Parnassus, Allegheny Co., Pa., April 18, 1852, of German-Irish descent, a son of James Strange, who was born in 1806; he came from County Down, Ireland; died in 1884, at the age of seventy-eight years. He was married to Eliza Abber; she was born in 1812 and died in 1896, at the age of eighty-four years. Rev. A.K. Strange began his school career at Parnassus, Pa.; attended the Westminster College, Lawrence Co., Pa.; graduated in the class of 1878, receiving the degree of A.B., He also attended the Xenia Theological Seminary in 1881. He taught school for three years, at Independence, Iowa; two terms at Dubuque, Iowa. At present he is the United Presbyterian minister at the Stone Valley Church at McAlevy's Fort, Huntingdon Co., Pa.; has been since 1925. For twenty years he was a minister in Ohio. He has been a minister for forty-eight years. He was a minister in the State of Indiana for fifteen years, where he began his ministerial career. He is independent in politics. Six brothers are deceased, William, John, Robert, Hugh, Jackson and Allen. He had three brothers in the Civil War, on the Union side. He has four sisters deceased, Jane, Rachel, Mary Anna and Margaret. He was married to Edith Austin. One daughter, Nancy E., married to James S. Thompson. Rev. Strange remarried to Ida Van Schoyck, a daughter of John H. and Jane Van Schoyck, of Reynoldsville, Ohio.