Sullivan County PA Archives Biographies.....Streby, George 1855 - 
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  Author: Thomas J. Ingham (1899)
  
  GEORGE STREBY, one of the leading newspaper men of Sullivan county, is the
  popular editor and proprietor of the Sullivan Gazette, of Dushore, Pennsylvania.
  He is a native of the county, born in Forks township, January 7, 1855, and is a
  representative of one of the honored pioneer families of this section of the
  state, his great-grandfather, Leonard Streby, having been the third white
  settler of Overton township, Bradford county. Thomas Streby, our subject's
  father, located on a farm in Forks township, Sullivan county, in 1852, and is
  still one of its successful and prominent agriculturists. Politically he is a
  Democrat, and he has been honored with a number of local offices, including
  those of tax collector, road commissioner and school director. He married Miss
  Caroline Bleiler, and our subject is the oldest of their children, the others
  being Lloyd, a farmer of Forks township; Frank, a journeyman wheelwright;
  Clinton, a farmer of Overton township, Bradford county; and Anna. The family all
  hold membership in the Reformed church and are widely and favorably known.
  
      George Streby received his early education in the public schools of Forks
  township, and later attended the Sullivan County Normal Institute and the State
  Normal at Mansfield, Pennsylvania. In 1874 he commenced teaching, and
  successfully followed that profession until 1887. In February of the latter year
  he came to Dushore and established the Sullivan Gazette, a clean, newsy weekly
  journal and the only successful Democratic organ published in the county. Mr.
  Streby is public-spirited in an eminent degree and has done much in behalf of
  the general welfare of the community. For twelve years he efficiently served as
  auditor in Forks township, and was school director for several terms.
  
      On the 22d of February, 1880, Mr. Streby wedded Miss Mary J. Woodley, a
  daughter of A. K. Woodley, of Overton, Bradford county, and of this union four
  children have been born: Clara A., Martha J., Oscar R., who died in his third
  year, and Austin W. Mrs. Streby is a most estimable lady and is a member of the
  Methodist Episcopal church.
  
  
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        Extracted from: 
          
           History of Sullivan County Pennsylvania
        by Thomas J. Ingham
          
           Compendium of Biography
          
        The Lewis Publishing Company
            Chicago: 1899
   
  
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