Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2010, All Rights Reserved U.S. Data Repository Please read U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on this page: History of Manistee, Mason and Oceana counties, Michigan with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers Published by H. R. Page & Co., Chicago, IL, 1882 Transcribed by Linda Talbott ========================================================================== Page 147 - 148 STROBRIDGE, Charles E. ========================================================================== Charles E. Strobridge, scaler, estimator of pine land, and real estate agent, Hesperia, was born in Ridgebury, Bradford Co., Pa., March 6, 1847. He came to Michigan May 20, 1862, and during the following October came into this township, locating 160 acres of government land and forty acres of state swamp land, on Sections 21 and 22. For several years he has been in the employ of large lumber firms, superintending the scaling at several camps during the Winter months, and estimating and purchasing pine lands in Summer. He married, October 20, 1868, Satie M. Strickland, at Green Bay, Wis., and they have one surviving child, Truman S., and have lost two children, Olive A., who died August 10, 1867, and Henry, August 30, 1874. ========================================================================== Transcriber Note: Marriage date and death date of Olive A., are exactly as they appear in the book and are not a transcription error.