Person Record

Metadata

Name

Strait, Charles Leslie

Genealogy ID

14943

Born

20 SEP 1835

Birthplace

Coudersport, Potter PA

Deceased

21 NOV 1908

Deceased where

E. St. Louis, IL

Cemetery

Illinois

Occupation

Hardware store
Lumbering

Father

Isaac Strait

Mother

Maria Benson

Spouse

Cordelia Watkins

Children

Edith M. Strait
George L. Strait
Thaddeus B. Strait
Fred W. Strait

Reference

Obit 1897

Notes

STRAIT, Charles Leslie [SRGP 14943] - Charles Strait, 74 years old, died Saturday night of pneumonia at his home on the Collinsville Road. He is survived by his wife and a son, T.B. Strait of East St. Louis. The funeral will be held Tuesday, at 2 p.m., to Mt. Hope Cemetery. - St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, 23 November 1908, Monday, p.11

Charles L. Strait, a son of Isaac and Maria Strait, was born in Coudersport, Potter county, September 20, 1835. When eighteen years of age he began clerking in the store of A.D. Austin, of Austinville, Bradford county. In 1859 he came to Roseville, Tioga county, where he carried on a general store for about twenty years. Coming to Mansfield in 1879, he became a member of the hardware firm of Strait & Kohler, with which he was connected up to 1886, when he went to Carter county, Tennessee, and engaged in lumbering, his family however, remaining in Mansfield. In 1890 he returned to Mansfield, where he has since lived. Although not actively engaged in business, he is interest in the hardware store conducted by his son George L. Mr. Strait was married September 10, 1860, to Cordelia M. Watkins, a daughter of W.B. Watkins, of Bradford county, who has borne him four children, viz: George L., Thad B., Edith M., wife of Thomas D. Farrer, of Boise City, Idaho, and Fred W. Mr. Strait is a member of the Universalist church, and in politics, an adherent of the Republican party, his first presidential vote being cast for Abraham Lincoln. [1897 Tioga County History]

[Retan 1957] Another hardware business is that of Harold Strait at 2 N. Main Street. In 1876 C. E. Allen had a hardware business in town. In 1878, after the completion of the Allen Block it moved into it present location as F. A. Allen and Company. The building was, a first, a two-story building, and the third story was added for the Soldiers Orphan School. The business became successively, Allen and Pratt in 1880, T. V. Moore and Company in 1882, Lloyd and App in 1889, George L. Strait in 1891, Strait and Wood, Srait and Retan, and George L. Strait and Sons in 1910, the present firm name under Harold Strait as manager.

Letterhead Stationery 1884 printed by Mansfield Advertiser. Dry goods, clothing, Notions, Groceries. Operated store in Rutland (probably in Roseville).

1899 directory - Strait Charles L, resident, Main cor Elmira