BIO:  GEORGE STROHM, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 583-584
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    GEORGE STROHM, a prosperous farmer of Southampton township, Franklin
  county, was born July 27, 1857, in Cumberland county, on a farm northeast of
  Shippensburg and not far from that city. He is the fourth son of Philip and
  Catherine (Noaker) Strohm, and thus comes on both sides from old families of
  Cumberland county.

    Mr. Strohm passed his boyhood on the Gessenger farm, now owned by George B.
  Cole, and the greater part of his education was received in the Oak Grove
  schoolhouse. He lived at home until he reached his majority, but meantime
  began to work on his present place, the old McLean farm, of which he first
  took charge in 1872, when but a boy. He has been identified with this place,
  as manager and renter, ever since, and settled on the farm after his
  marriage. This place contains 160 acres, and is a valuable property, kept up
  to the top notch under Mr. Strohm's management, for he is intelligent and
  systematic in his work, employing the latest methods and the latest
  machinery. He has been especially successful as a wheat grower, having raised
  as much as 1,200 bushels in a season, but he ranks well in his locality in
  every branch of his calling.

    On Feb. 14, 1889, Mr. Strohm married Miss Carrie A. Cramer, third daughter
  of George and Anna C. (Long) Cramer, the former of whom is deceased. Mrs.
  Cramer is still living, hale and hearty, and in the full possession of all
  her faculties. To this union

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  have come two children, Alfred (born in 1893) and Effie Pearl. Mr. and Mrs.
  Strohm are esteemed members of the Lutheran Church at Shippensburg.
  Politically, he is a Democrat of the Jacksonian type, and he has served three
  years as assessor of Southampton township.