BIO:  C. A. STRACK, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, York Borough, Pg 50

C. A. STRACK, furniture dealer and undertaker, is a native of York, Penn., born 
March 4, 1843, son of Charles A. and Caroline (Funk) Strack.  The father was a 
native of Saxony, Germany, born in 1810, and the mother was born in 1806.  In 
1838 the ancestors of our subject emigrated from Germany to America and settled 
in Baltimore, Md., and in 1839 removed to York, where subject’s father died in 
1855.  At the age of twelve years our subject began learning the cabinet-maker’s 
trade under an elder brother, and in this capacity continued five years, after 
which he became general manager of the furniture and undertaking business.  Mr. 
Strack’s father was one of the early furniture dealers of York.  In 1878 subject 
purchased his mother’s interest in the business, and since that time has been 
doing business for himself.  He was married, in 1865, to Mary M. Heckert, a 
native of York.  Six children were born to this union:  Carrie S., Emma J., 
Charles P., Rebecca B., Samuel H. and Fannie M.  Mr. Strack is a Democrat, and 
has been a member of the borough school board and identified with the numerous 
associations of York.  He and his wife are members of the Trinity German 
Reformed Church.