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WILSON S. STROHM, a prosperous farmer and stock raiser of Shippensburg, Pa., is a native of Cumberland county, born in Newton township, Nov. 24, 1852, son of Philip and Sarah (Noaker) Strohm, well-to-do farming people of that time.

Philip Strohm was born in Lancaster county, Pa., but when quite small was brought by his father, Henry Strohm, to Cumberland county, where about 1833 he located on a farm of 175 acres in Southampton township, two miles east of Shippensburg; some years later he moved to New Mansfield, Ohio, where he died. Philip Strohm became a successful farmer, and died in March, 1897, in his seventy-sixth year, while living with his son, John, on the McLean farm. His wife was a native of Cumberland county, and was connected with many of the old families of the county. To Philip Strohm and his wife were born six children, five sons and one daughter: Alexander, deceased; Wilson S.; John; George; Charles H.; and Sarah J., wife of Frank Whistler, a resident of Harrisburg.

Wilson S. Strohm attended the Oak Grove school during the winter months. His summers were busy ones on the home farm, where his services were much in demand, and where he remained until attaining his majority, when he began business on his own account, engaging in farming for three years. Then for eight years he followed threshing, after which he engaged in the stock business with much success for five or six years, shipping in stock from different points. In 1899 he bought the George H. Stewart farm of 120 acres in Southampton township, one of the model farms of the county, well-improved, with a good dwelling, a fine bank barn, and corresponding outbuildings and sheds. Since then he has given most of his time to the managing of his farm, and has proved that in the intervening years he had not forgotten the valuable lessons on agriculture learned in his youth. He has engaged in stock raising also, in addition to his general farming, and in this he has met with his usual good fortune. In the spring of 1899 Mr. Strohm moved into Shippensburg, but still superintends his farm. In 1904 he also purchased a valuable property located on East Main street, Shippensburg, which he intends to occupy. He is a stanch Democrat and formerly took an active part in the political affairs of the county, and served as member of the Democratic county committee. He has also served as township auditor and assessor.

Mr. Strohm was married to Miss Ella R. Brown, of Oakville, daughter of Thomas and Susan (Cramer) Brown, and they have one daughter, Mary Ella, now a bright little girl.