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- History of DeKalb County, Indiana (1885)
Joseph Straub is of German Ancestry. He came from Marion County, Ohio,
in 1835, with his wife and three children and settled in Butler Township, De
Kalb Co., Ind., where he bought a half section of land from the Government, of
which he cleared about forty acres. In 1842 he sold his land and removed to
Carroll County, where he farmed five years, and in 1847 returned to this
county, where he bought a quarter section, and here he resided till his death,
which occurred Dec. 25, 1860, on his fifty-ninth birthday. His wife survived
till June, 1881, when she died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. L.S. Bassett,
which adjoins the old homestead. Eight children were born to them - Henry,
farming in Dakota; Susan (deceased); Simon Peter, who lives on the homestead
farm; Jacob, a Universalist minister; Margaret Ann, Maria, Barbara Elizabeth,
wife of L.S. Bassett of Butler Township, and Solomon W., residing at Woodlawn
Park, near Chicago. Rev. Jacob Straub entered the ministry in 1860 and has
become a prominent minister of the Universalist denomination. He has preached
at Dowagiac, Mich., five years; Lansing, Mich., seven years; Muskegon, Mich.,
four years. He then engaged in literary pursuits for two years, livi
Chicago and preaching irregularly, and for the past seven years he has been
pastor at Marseilles, Ill. He is the author of "Consolations of Science
which has received favorable notice from scientific and religious thinkers in
Europe and America. He intends to devote his future years to literary
pursuits. Mary Ann Straub has been in the Universalist ministry five years,
filling the pulpit at Castalia, Iowa, for three years. She now resid
Woodlawn Park, Ill. She has composed many Sunday-school hymns and has also
written an unpublished work for women.
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Bassett Family Association Database
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