Arthur Thomas STRAHORN

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Arthur was a soil scientist with the Bureau of Soils, U.S. Department of Agriculture. If you google "Soil Survey - Strahorn" you will find twenty or so books he wrote about local soil conditions in the West, especially with regard to their potential for irrigation. I knew him as a retiree living on his property in Porterville, California, which was full of orange trees. He would send us a case of oranges every year. He was a kind and thoughtful man, and I am his namesake. He attended our wedding in 1973 at the age of 97. - Gary Arthur Zentmyer

1885 Census in Weld, Colorado
1900 Census in North Platte, Lincoln, Nebraska
1901 13 June graduated from University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Bachelor of Science
1910 Census in Madera, California
1918 Draft registration in Big Piney, Wyoming, USDA Field Agent
1920 Census in Colorado Indian Reservation, Yuma, Arizona
1930 Census in Yuma, Yuma, Arizona
1940 Census (1935 Residence) Washington D.C.
1940 Census in Montgomery, Maryland
1942 lived at 5 Chacon Pl., Albuquerque, New Mexico.
1953-1954 listed in Polk's Porterville Directory living at 496 Vandalia Ave., Porterville

Arthur married Beatrice Josephine KEANE 19 Jan 1904, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California; divorced Bef 1920. Beatrice was born 1881. [Group Sheet]

Arthur married Zoe LIMBOCKER 31 May 1924, Los Angeles, California. Zoe (daughter of Thomas Benton LIMBOCKER and Caroline Cornelia SIGAFOOS) was born 20 Oct 1886, Erie, Neosho, Kansas; died 30 Jul 1984, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California; was buried Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Cypress, Orange, California. [Group Sheet]

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1868 began career as Fireman for C.N.W.R.R. at Escanaba, Delta, Michigan
1871 promoted to Engineer at Escanaba, Delta, Michigan
1880 September, moved to Union Pacific RR in North Platte, Lincoln, Nebraska
1885 Census in Weld County, Colorado
1886 foreman at Sterling, Logan, Colorado
1900 Census in North Platte, Lincoln, Nebraska
1910 Census in North Platte, Lincoln, Nebraska
1915 moved to Highland Park (Strahorn 50th newspaper)
1918 retired from Union Pacific (U.P.R.R. letter)
1920 Census at 521 W. 27th Street, Los Angeles, California
1921 City Directory at 109 W. 2nd., North Platte, Nebraska
1925 50th Wedding Anniversary at 211 N. Ave 51, Los Angeles, California
1933 Death at 211 N. Ave 51, Los Angeles, California

John married Sarah Elizabeth WOOD 10 Jun 1875, Milton, Buffalo, Wisconsin. Sarah (daughter of Abiel Saunders WOOD and Mercy CLOSSEN) was born 14 Mar 1849, Lyme, Grafton, New Hampshire; died 24 Oct 1940, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California; was buried Forest Lawn Cemetery, Glendale, Los Angeles, Caliifornia, Great Mausoleum, Dahlia Terrace, Sanctuary of Faith #3407. [Group Sheet]

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1850 Census in Haines Twp., Centre Co., Pennsylvania
1852 to 1855 worked in Hartleton, Union, Pennsylvania as a Millwright
1856 to Stephenson Co., Illinois
1865 to Sedalia, Missouri
1870 Census in Washingtom Twp., Pettis Co., Missouri
1876 St. Louis Missouri City Directory, City Hotel, a Foreman
1880 Census in Ruby Valley, Madison Co., Montana, a Millwright
1882 Voter Register, Los Angeles, California
1882 A founding elder, 2nd Presbyterian Church, Los Angeles, California
1884 Voter Register, Los Angeles, California, a Carpenter
1884 Spring - Suffered a stroke in Hailey, Idaho

"My father was a rare combination of mechanic, who could build anything from a clock or engine to flouring mills or steel works; he was a fine vocal and instrumental musician, teaching music and leading a brass band, and was an exceptional country school teacher. He was a full six feet, of fine build, in rough-and-tumble athletics feared nothing. He was also a splendid shot, in the country rifle matches of those days always bringing home a quarter of beef or a brace of turkeys. He ruled us mischievous boys by merely pointing at the hickory ramrod that reposed over the fireplace." -Robert E. Strahorn, from his autobiography Ninety Years of Boyhood.

Thomas married Rebecca EMMERT Abt 1848, Centre, Pennsylvania. Rebecca (daughter of Johannes/John EMMERT and Magdalena SCHUDT) was born 1826, Bethel, Lebanon, Pennsylvania; died 1863, Harris, Centre, Pennsylvania - Tuberculosis; was buried Boalsburg Cemetery, Centre, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet]

Abiel — Mercy CLOSSEN. Mercy was born 1812, Thetford, Orange, Vermont; died 1854, Emerald Grove, Rock, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet]

Samuel — Elizabeth LNU. Elizabeth was born 1795; died 11 Dec 1867, Hartley, Union, Pennsylvania; was buried Hartleton Union Church Cemetery. [Group Sheet]

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1830 Census in Bethel, Lebanon, Pennslvania
1840 Census in Potter, Centre, Pennsylvania
1850 Census in Harris, Centre, Pennsylvania occupation 'Farmer'
1870 Census in Harris, Centre, Pennsylvania occupation 'Retired Farmer'



Rehersburg in Berks County, where John's grandfather Johann Georg Emmert is buried, and Bethel Township in Lebanon County lie within two miles of each other.



Although Robert E. Strahorn's Ninety Years of Boyhood claims John Emmert was a Dutch Lutheran pastor, he was in fact of German descent. This was probably a misunderstanding of 'Pennsylvania Dutch,' which actually indicates German ancestry, a common misconception, which we have found in other family histories. But we have found no other indication that John Emmert was a pastor, and A history of the Lutheran Church in Pennsylvania 1638-1820: from the original sources" names not a single Emmert among the pastors chronicled. John consistently self-identified as a farmer, and the letter he wrote to his grandson in 1871 identified him as such, albeit as a religious man. But the letter did not display the command of English one might associate with a pastor.



"I've looked through the minutes of the Pennsylvania Ministerium from 1820-1840, but did not find any mention of a Rev. John Emmert. He is also not listed in the clergy listing in the 1892 history of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of East Pennsylvania." -Joel Thoreson, Archivist, Archives of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Name recorded as 'Johannes' in Altalaha Church birth records

Johannes/John married Magdalena SCHUDT Abt 1818. Magdalena was born 1798, Pennsylvania; died 1876, Harris, Centre, Pennsylvania; was buried Boalsburg Cemetery, Centre, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet]

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Name Magdalena from birth records for Johannes and Carolina in Tupelhocken Church birth records

Abiel — Sarah LNU. Sarah was born Abt 1766, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet]