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AUGUST STREHLE, son of Matthias and Eleanor (Yerger) Strehle, was born May 19, 1835, at New Weir, in the Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany. His father was a cooper by trade, to which August was also apprenticed after attending the state school of his parish until he had reached the age of fourteen years.

In 1855, having finished his apprenticeship, August came to this country and settled in Philadelphia, where he worked for Louis Bergdoll and others at his trade until the year 1864, when he established himself in business as a cooper at No. 1732 Frankford avenue. He also kept a hotel at that location, remaining in business there until 1898 when he retired, having disposed of his business, and decided to remove to the country.

Mr. Strehle married, November 14, 1856, Frederica Pflander, born May 28, 1837, daughter of Jacob and Agnes Barbara (Heckler) Pflander, of Felbach, Wittenberg, in Germany, at which place the father had been for some years a bailiff or constable, but he dying his widow removed to Philadelphia. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Strehle: 1. Mary, born November 29, 1857, married Charles Smith, of Philadelphia, and had two children; Elizabeth, born October 9, 1859, who married Joseph Muller, of Philadelphia, and had two children, Frederica, born July 20, 1888, and Harry, born September 22, 1895; Catharine, born September 6, 1861, died in October, 1866; August, born September 8, 1863, died in infancy; Josephine, born in 1865, deceased; Frederica, born September 6, 1867, married Louis Kiefer, of Philadelphia; August, second, born April 15, 1869, married Gertrude Kramer, of Philadelphia, and had one child, Edna, born in December, 1895; Amelia, born June 3, 1871, married in April, 1895, Louis Doell, of Philadelphia, and had three children, Edna, Walter, and Henrietta; Henry, born in 1873, died in 1876; Harry, born October 7, 1876, married, July, 1901, Mary Rayner, daughter of Henry Rayner, of Penllyn, farmer, and had two children, Mary, born November 7, 1902, and Henry, born July 19, 1903; Frank, born July 19, 1879, deceased.

Mr. Strehle, having retired from active business, resides upon the farm that his thrift and industry have enabled him to acquire. In his younger and more active years, he took much interest in those organizations that are dear to the German heart, and whose tendency is to keep up the old associations of the sons and daughters of the Fatherland, including the Junger Mannerchor, the Canstatters, Schutzenferein and singing societies. Fraternally Mr. Strehle is a member of Gothic Lodge, No. 519, Free and Accepted Masons, of Philadelphia, and has been since 1870. Now in the autumn of life, Mr. Strehle, having raised his family, is enjoying well-earned repose, and enjoys the respect and confidence of the community in which he lives.