My Genealogy Hound

Charles S. Strain, M. D., one of the young and eminently successful physicians and surgeons of Oakland County, Michigan, whose selected field of practice is the pleasant town of Rochester, was born in Patterson, Hardin County, Ohio. He is a son of Rev. John B. and Elizabeth (Rodgers) Strain, both of whom were natives of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.

Rev. John B. Strain was a clergyman of the Presbyterian Church, a man of literary ability and superior educational training. For a period he was principal of the old Canonsburg Academy. There he married and after several years of ministerial work in different towns in Pennsylvania, with his wife removed to Patterson, Ohio, and shortly after the birth of their son, our subject, removed to Columbus Grove, Putnam County, Ohio. There Rev. Mr. Strain died at the age of 68 years, in 1892. His widow still resides at Columbus Grove. Dr. Strain is one of the five survivors of a family of eight children.

Dr. Strain was reared in a literary and intellectual atmosphere and its influence was shown in the ease with which he carried off school honors. After graduating at the Columbus Grove High School in 1888, he entered a printing office to learn that trade and from 1892 to 1897 showed his versatility by ably editing the local paper, the Columbus Grove Record. He then decided upon a medical career and entered the Detroit Homeopathic Medical College, where he was graduated with the first honors of his class in 1902. He settled at Rochester and has been professionally successful and has gained public confidence and esteem.

In 1893 Dr. Strain married Cootie Henderson, who was born at Columbus Grove, Ohio. Her father, Eli Henderson, was in the milling business in Putnam County, Ohio, for over half a century.

Dr. Strain is socially inclined and is a valued member of Rufus Putnam Lodge, No. 364, F. & A. M., at Columbus Grove; Columbus Grove Lodge, No. 376, Knights of Pythias; the Royal Arcanum; and the Prudent Patricians of Pompeii, of Rochester.