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HENRY F. STROHL has been a resident of Iowa
since he was a lad of ten years, and here he has found
opportunity for useful and responsible service in connection
with the railway transportation service of the state. He has
been station agent for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Railroad at Garden Grove, Decatur County, nearly forty years,
and this prolonged service shows that is is a valued
representative of the railroad company and also distinctive in
the community in which he has thus lived and to the service of
which he has given loyal and efficient attention.
Mr. Strohl was born in Dollstadt, Saxe-Coburg, Germany, May 3,
1863, and is a son of William and Henrietta (Appenfelder)
Strohl, who passed the closing years of their lives in Iowa.
Though he was bur seven years of age at the time, Mr. Strohl
recalls vividly one experience in his native land, that
pertaining to the calling and mobilizing of soldiers for the
Franco-Prussian war, in 1870. Soon afterward, in 1871, he
accompanied his parents on their immigration to the United
States, and the home was first established in Lee County,
Illinois. In the fall of 1873 the family came to Iowa and made
settlement on a farm near Red Oak, Montgomery County, and it
was in that locality that the subject of this review completed
his final study in the public schools. He has been actively
associated with railway service since 1878 and was about
fifteen years of age when he initiated his service. He became
a skilled telegraph operator, and his service through the
years has been mainly as operator and station agent for the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad. For this great system
he has been station agent at Garden Grove since January 1,
1893, and he is now one of the veterans in the Iowa service of
this road, with secure place in the confidence and esteem of
officials of the system and also of the general public. He is
affiliated with the Brotherhood of the Order of Railroad
Telegraphers and also with the Order of Burlington Veterans.
He is a member of the board of directors of the Garden Grove
Trust & Savings Bank, has served as a member of the city
council, and was for eight years a member of the local board
of education, of which he was president at the time of the
introduction of normal training in the schools of Garden
Grove. His political convictions place him loyally in the
ranks of the Republican party and he and his family hold
membership in the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Strohl gives also a
general supervision to his well improved farm near Garden
Grove.
October 17, 1887, recorded the marriage of Mr. Strohl to Miss
Mary Schreiner, daughter of Jacob and Margaret (Gutesohn)
Schreiner, who were born in Bavaria, Germany, who came to the
United States in the late '50s, who first established
residence in Ohio, and who eventually came from the old
Buckeye State to Iowa, where they passed the remainder of
their lives. William J., eldest of the children of Mr. and
Mrs. Strohl, remains at the parental home. Leo C., who with
his wife and their one child, Shirley Jean, now resides at
Albany, Missouri, was in overseas service in the World war, he
having been a member of a Saint Louis regiment of railroad
engineers and with this unit having given loyal and valuable
service overseas. Leslie Paul likewise gave World war service
with the same unit of railway engineers as did his older
brother, and he now resides at Pacific Junction, Iowa. Mildred
Marie, a graduate of the University of Southern California,
has been engaged in educational work in Iowa and Oklahoma, as
well as in California, and at the present time she is
supervisor of a girls' training school at Inglewood,
California. Margaret Henrietta, who has been a popular teacher
in the public schools of both Iowa and Michigan, is now the
wife of John Harlan, and they maintain their home in the City
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~ source: A Narrative History of The People
of Iowa, Edgar Rubey
Harlan, LL. B., A. M.,
Chicago and New York, 1931
~ transcribed and contributed by: Debbie Clough
Gerischer, Iowa History
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