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1809 - 1867 (58 years)| Name | Samuel STRAYHORN | |
| Birth | 26 Apr 1809 | Chester Co., Pennsylvania  |
| Gender | Male | |
| Death | 1 Nov 1867 | New Garden Twp, Chester Co., Pennsylvania [1] |
| Burial | New London Presbyterian Cemetery |
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| Person ID | I85965 | Zentmeyer Main Tree |
| Last Modified | 2 Oct 2015 | |
| Father | Samuel J. STRAYHORN, b. 1769, Antrim, Ireland d. 10 Oct 1858, New London Twp, Chester Co., Pennsylvania (Age 89 years) | |
| Mother | Hannah GHEEN, b. Thornbury, Chester, Pennsylvania d. Bef 1850 | |
| Marriage | 1 Feb 1798 | Thornbury, Chester, Pennsylvania |
| Family ID | F23256 | Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family | Amelia R. HILL, b. 22 May 1809 d. 24 Jan 1874, Toughkenamon, Chester, Pennsylvania (Age 64 years) | |||||||||||
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| Family ID | F496 | Group Sheet | Family Chart | ||||||||||
| Last Modified | 21 Feb 2015 | |||||||||||
| Photos |  | Strayhorn Wheel & Spoke Works, Landenberg Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania
Original location, on the East Branch of White Clay Creek, from a map dated 1847. |
 | Strahorn, Pierson & Co. Spoke and Wheel Factory, Toughkenamon,Chester County, Pennsylvania After a fire destroyed his factory in 1864, Samuel Strahorn decided to relocate. With the advent of steam power, factory owners were no longer limited to operating near rivers and streams. Strahorn learned that the route of the Philadelphia and Baltimore Central Railroad would pass through the crossroads later to be known as Toughkenamon, affording ready access to rail shipping. The new partnership of Strahorn, Pierson and Company opened at Toughkenamon in the spring of 1866 after purchasing a factory there. Samuel Strahorn died in November 1867 of "Typhomalarial Fever" which periodically swept through the Toughkenamon Valley. It appears that his wife retained the partnership interest, and a few years later their sons Joseph H. and Milton Strahorn were listed in the business. The factory was three stories high and some fifteen to twenty men were employed there, turning out 40,000 spokes, 1,200 sets of wheels, and a large number of hubs and other items each year. Machinery was driven by a twenty horsepower Corliss steam engine. Through the years, the capacity for finishing spokes increased to seven or eight hundred per day. The partnership was dissolved in 1890 and business was conducted thereafter solely by Isaac M. Pierson. Milton and Joseph Strahorn operated a carriage shop across the road in the same building that housed the blacksmith shop. Tragedy struck on Christmas day in 1903 when the wheel works was set afire, completely destroying the operation. It was written that a Toughkenamon firebug was responsible, and there is no further reference to the business. | |
 | Envelope from Strahorn, Pierson & Co. | |
 | Headstone of Samuel Strahorn Located in the New London Presbyterian Cemetery, new section |
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