1.  Marriage Record:

2.  1830 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image #5 of 10; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•

1830

PA

Union [now Snyder] Co.

Penns Twp.

Selinsgrove

p. 15/408

Ln. 25

Stroup Christian

100 020 - 100 010

These data indicate:

No. & Sex	Age Class	Therefore Born	Individuals Inferred
1 male	4 or under	1825-1830	= Son A
2 males	20-29	1800-1810	= Christian (b. 1804)
1 female	4 or under	1825-1830	= Daughter A
1 female	20-29	1800-1810	= Mary

3.  1840 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image #3 of 53; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•

1840

PA

Schuylkill Co.

Borough of Pottsville

p. 194B

Ln. 7

C M Straub

001 000 - 200 010

free colored: 000000-010000

1001000

These data indicate:

No. & Sex	Age Class	Therefore Born	Individuals Inferred
1 male	10-14	1825-1830	= Son A
0 male	30-39	1800-1810	= Christian (b. 1804)
2 females	4 or under	1835-1840	= Sarah (b. 1840) = Clara (b. 1835)
1 female	20-29	1810-1820	= Mary (b. 1804/5)
1	person employed in agriculture

Where is Christian?  Off at lawschool?  Or did the enumerator err?  Surely the enumerator did not make the boy "head-of-household," though, if so, we have the name of his son.

4.  1850 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image #21-22 of 22 — indexed "Stranl"):  Borough of Orwigsburg, Schuylkill Co., PA, pp. 209A-209B, 157/164, enumerated 12 Oct 1850, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1850 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•

C M Straub	48	M		Sheriff		Penna
Mary	45	F		Wife	2000	"
Clara	13	F				"
Sarah	11	F				"
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George	9	M				Penna
Augusta	7	M				"
Louisa? Witt	12	F				"

There were then listed 16 men under the heading, "County Jail."

5.  1860 Census Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image #24 of 127 — indexed "Em Straub"):  Tamaqua P.O., Borough of Tamaqua (East Ward), Schuylkill Co., PA, p. 986, PN 110, 864/827, enumerated 28 Jun 1860, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1860 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•

C. M. Straub	58	M		Merchant	4000	500	Pa
Mary     "	54	F			4000		"
Sarah    "	19	F					"
George   "	17	M		Merchant		4000	"
A. W.    "	12	M					"

6.  1870 Census Index/Images (online at Genealogy.com):  not found. 

7.  Anon.  1911.  Genealogical & Biographical Annals of Northumberland County.  J.L. Floyd & Co., Chicago. Biographical sketches of Jacob Straub and his kin. 

8.  William Henry Egle.  1898.  Notes and Queries: Historical, Biographical and Genealogical: Relating Chiefly to Interior Pennsylvania: Annual Volume, 1897.  Harrisburg Publ. Co. Harriburg, PA (reprinted 1970 Genealogical Publ. Co., Baltimore, MD; republished 1998 as Broderbund CD-19).  On pp. 41-42, a biographical sketch of Christian's father, Andrew Straub, Founder of Milton. 

9.  Anon.  1950.  Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949.  U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, p. 1876.

STRAUB, Christian Markle, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Milton, Pa., in 1804; studied law; was admitted to the bar; prothonotary of Schuylkill County in 1845; sheriff of Schuylkill County in 1849; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third Congress (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1855); member of the State senate 1856-1858; died in Washington, D.C.; interment in Pottsville, Pa.

10.  Thomas William Herringshaw. 1902.  Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century.  American Publ. Assn., Chicago, p. 900:

STRAUB, CHRISTIAN M., congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1853 to 1855.

11.  Information found by Frank Stroup at the Pennsylvania Historical Society in two folders of unpublished notes entitled Helen Gearhart Collection.  These notes were entirely undocumented, so caveat emptor; yet if true, they contain much valuable information, so are worth consulting. See STRAUB-L Mailing List Archives (online at RootsWeb.com) and search on "Gearhart."