Portrait and biographical record of Orange county, New York, Containing portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the countyTogether with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States . 21, 1858, and isthe third and youngest child of Benjamin B. andFrances (Benton) Strong. The father, who wasalso born in Goshen, was a successful agricultur-ist, and besides being well posted in militarytactics was a man of wide information on varioustopics. He was called to the silent land in No-vember, 1871, and his wife did not long survivehim, dyin
Portrait and biographical record of Orange county, New York, Containing portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the countyTogether with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States . 21, 1858, and isthe third and youngest child of Benjamin B. andFrances (Benton) Strong. The father, who wasalso born in Goshen, was a successful agricultur-ist, and besides being well posted in militarytactics was a man of wide information on varioustopics. He was called to the silent land in No-vember, 1871, and his wife did not long survivehim, dying the following year. She was a na-tive of Ulster County, but removed to Goshenwith her parents in childhood and there spentthe remainder of her life. The boyhood of W. H. Strong passed in anuneventful manner, his main business being toacquire a good general education in the districtschools of his neighborhood. In order that hemight better fit himself for business, he took acourse in Eastmans Commercial College atPoughkeepsie. His home has always been uponhis present farm, which is the old homestead ofhis parents, and which is a beautiful tract of land,improved with modern buildings and comprisingsome one hundred and twelve acres. Of late. HON. CLINTON WHKELRR WISNER. PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 279 years he has been specially successful as a dairyfarmer,, and finds a ready market for the productsof his place in the neighboring towns and 16, 1888, Mr. Strong was united in mar-riage with Mary J. Beiinet, who was born in thislocality, and has become the mother of a brightlittle daughter, Annie May, born July 16, Strongs parents, William H. and Ann(Smith) Bennet, are likewise natives of OrangeCounty, and come from some of her good old fami-lies (.see sketch of Mr. Bennet elsewhere in thisvolume). As far back as Mr. Strong can tracehis ancestry, his progenitors have been adherentsof the Presbyterian denomination. Both he andhis wife are members of the Pre
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