| Sources:
1. Marriage Record:
2. 1900 Census Index/Images (online at Genealogy.com, Image
#4 of 11): Rouseville Borough, Venango Co., PA, Roll 1490 (Book 2),
p. 74B, SH 2B, SD 15, ED 138, enumerated 1 Jun 1900, official enumeration
date 1 Jun 1900 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•
| 1900: for an explanation of the column
headings, please see What
the Numbers in the Federal Census Mean (missing columns contained
no data). |
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19 |
20 |
22 |
23 |
24 |
25 |
26 |
27 |
| 43 |
44 |
Straub Chas A |
Head |
W |
M |
Mch 1863 |
37 |
M |
8 |
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NY |
FL |
NY |
Oil Producer |
0 |
Y |
Y |
Y |
O |
F |
H |
| |
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Straub Louise |
Wife |
W |
F |
Apr 1866 |
34 |
M |
8 |
2 |
2 |
NY |
NY |
NY |
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Y |
Y |
Y |
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Straub Evlin ? |
Daughter |
W |
F |
Jun 1895 |
4 |
S |
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PA |
NY |
NY |
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| |
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Straub Peter W |
Son |
W |
M |
Dec 1898 |
1 |
S |
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PA |
NY |
NY |
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3. 1910 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image
#86 of 92): 422 South Central Avenue, Chanute City (Ward 4), Neosho
Co., KS, Roll T624_451 (Part 1), p. 159A, SN 49A, SD 1, ED 199, enumerated
14 May 1910, official enumeration date 15 Apr 1910 (extracted by Diana
Gale Matthiesen):¤•
| 1910: for an explanation of the column
headings, please see What
the Numbers in the Federal Census Mean (missing columns contained
no data). |
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17 |
18 |
20 |
23 |
24 |
25 |
26 |
27 |
28 |
| * |
422 |
945 |
974 |
Straub Charles A |
Head |
M |
W |
47 |
M1 |
17 |
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New York |
Florida |
New York |
Eng |
Oil Producer |
Emp |
Y |
Y |
|
O |
M |
H |
| |
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______ Louise W |
Wife |
F |
W |
44 |
M1 |
17 |
4 |
4 |
New York |
Ger German |
New York |
Eng |
None |
|
Y |
Y |
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| |
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______ Evelyn L |
Dau |
F |
W |
14 |
S |
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Penna |
New York |
New York |
Eng |
None |
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Y |
Y |
Y |
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| |
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______ Peter W |
Son |
M |
W |
11 |
S |
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Penna |
New York |
New York |
Eng |
None |
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Y |
Y |
Y |
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| |
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______ Helen M |
Dau |
F |
W |
9 |
S |
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Penna |
New York |
New York |
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None |
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Y |
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______ Ruth C? |
Dau |
F |
W |
11/12 |
S |
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Kansas |
New York |
New York |
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None |
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| *South Central Avenue |
4. 1920 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image
#2 of 5): Kissimmee City (Campbell Station, Pct. 8), Osceola Co.,
FL, Roll T625_229 (Book 1), p. 5B, SN 5B, SD 44, ED 126, enumerated 10
Mar 1920, official enumeration date 1 Jan 1920 (extracted by Diana Gale
Matthiesen):¤•
| 1920: for an explanation of the column
headings, please see What
the Numbers in the Federal Census Mean (missing columns contained
no data). |
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4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
16 |
17 |
18 |
19 |
21 |
22 |
23 |
24 |
25 |
26 |
27 |
28 |
| Fm |
14 |
Straub C A |
Head |
O |
F |
M |
W |
57 |
M |
N |
Y |
Y |
Pennsylvania |
Florida |
|
Pennsylvania |
|
Y |
Farmer |
Truck |
OA |
| |
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______ L W |
Wife |
|
|
F |
W |
54 |
M |
N |
Y |
Y |
New York |
Holland |
Dutch |
Holland |
Dutch |
Y |
None |
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| |
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______ P W |
Son |
|
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M |
W |
21 |
S |
N |
Y |
Y |
Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
|
New York |
|
Y |
None |
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______ Helen M |
Dau |
|
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F |
W |
19 |
S |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
|
New York |
|
Y |
None |
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| |
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______ Ruth C |
Dau |
|
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F |
W |
10 |
S |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Kansas |
Pennsylvania |
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New York |
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Y |
None |
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5. 1930 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image
#2 of 43 — indexed "Straup"): 422 Main
St., Kissimmee City, Osceola Co., FL, Roll 327 (Book 2), p. 1B, SN 1B,
ED 49-1, SD 5, enumerated 2 Apr 1930, official enumeration date 1 Apr 1930
(extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•
| 1930: for an explanation of the column
headings, please see What
the Numbers in the Federal Census Mean (missing columns contained
no data). |
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2 |
3 |
4 |
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17 |
18 |
19 |
20 |
24 |
25 |
26 |
27 |
28 |
29 |
30 |
| * |
422 |
15 |
15 |
Straub Charles A |
Head |
O |
$3000 |
R |
N |
M |
W |
67 |
M |
29 |
N |
Y |
NY |
At Sea |
NY |
Y |
Oil man |
owner oil company |
E |
Y |
|
N |
| |
|
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______ Louis W |
Wife |
|
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|
F |
W |
64 |
M |
26 |
N |
Y |
NY |
Ger |
NY |
Y |
None |
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Kritz Hellen S |
Dau |
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F |
W |
29 |
S |
22 |
N |
Y |
PA |
NY |
NY |
Y |
None |
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Kritz James M |
S-in-law |
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M |
W |
35 |
S |
27 |
N |
Y |
NC |
Ger |
NC |
Y |
Auto Mechanic |
At Garage |
W |
N |
7 |
N |
| *Main St |
6. William E. Connelley. 1918. A Standard History
of Kansas and Kansans. Vol. V. Lewis Publ. Co., Chicago:
| p. 2429 |
Charles A. Straub, a veteran oil worker
in Western Pennsylvania, came to Kansas about the opening of the fields
in the southern part of this state, and in recent years has become the
responsible factor in developing much of the oil and gas interests in and
around Moran, where he resides.
Mr. Straub is manager, secretary
and treasurer of the Eastern Kansas Oil Company, Limited, whose home and
headquarters are in Moran.
Mr. Straub was born at Sheldon, Wyoming County, New York,
March 29, 1863. His father, A.B. Straub, was born in 1838
and by the accident of birth is a native of Florida. The grandfather,
who was born in 1810, in Germany, emigrated to America and landed at one
of the ports of Florida, and soon afterwards his oldest child, A.B.,
was born. The family soon came North and located in the Town of |
| p. 2430 |
Sheldon, New York, where Grandfather Straub
built and for many years was proprietor of the Sheldon Hotel. He
died there in 1893. A.B. Straub had no conscious recollections
of his native State of Florida, but in recent years has spent his winters
at St. Petersburg in that state. He grew up in the Town of Sheldon,
New York, was married there, and for a number of years was associated with
his father in the management of the Sheldon Hotel. In 1865 he moved
to Oil Creek, Pennsylvania. He had some interesting associations
with the pioneer oil industry of that state, and most of his sons have
at one time or another been oil men. A.B. Straub had a hotel and
he also owned three large barges which were used in transporting freight
up and down Oil Creek. Just above the creek from the scene of his
former operations he bought the McClintock homestead, a residence
and three acres of land, and he now spends his summers on that estate,
at the Town of Rouseville. Two of his sons and a daughter have also
built homes on the three acres of ground. A.B. Straub is a
democrat, a member of the Catholic Church and is affiliated with the Catholic
Mutual Benefit Association. He married Mary J. Kuster, who
was born at Strykersville, Pennsylvania, in 1841. Charles A. Straub
is the oldest of their large family of children. Henry Frank is
an oil producer living at Titusville, Pennsylvania, and has an oil lease
at Pioneer, Pennsylvania. Andrew Thomas has oil productions
at Rouseville, Pennsylvania. William J. is an oil producer
on the old Rynd farm near Rouseville. George T. is
a resident of Rouseville, and has oil properties near Franklin.
Clara
B. is the wife of D.J. Cavanaugh, manager of the German Refining
Company at Rouseville. Lena married Thomas Leroux,
a blacksmith of Rouseville, Mr. Leroux being successor to the business
once owned by his uncle, Thomas Leroux, who was the pioneer blacksmith
at Rouseville.
Charles A. Straub grew up from early infancy in Western Pennsylvania.
He attended the Rynd farm school and also the public schools of
Rouseville. His environment from boyhood was the oil fields and their
attendant activities in Western Pennsylvania. He took to the oil
business as naturally as a boy on the seacoast takes to the sea.
When he was twenty-four years of age he invested all the capital he had,
$50, as a first instalment for a string of drilling tools and started out
as an oil well driller. In that work he followed the fields along
Oil Creek and around Oil City and had finally acquired an equipment of
three strings of tools and was doing an extensive business as a contractor.
He also did some oil production on his own account.
Mr. Straub came to Chanute, Kansas, in 1901. Until
1909 he was field manager for the Kansas Crude Oil and Gas Company.
In the latter year he bought out the interests of this company, but sold
them in 1911 and removed to Moran. At Moran he acquired a three-eighth
interest in the Eastern Kansas Oil Company, Limited. This is both a producing
and refining company. It has gas productions south of Moran, oil
productions east of Moran, and operated its refinery three miles east of
the town. The refinery has a capacity of 800 barrels a day.
The gas produced by the company is sold to the Prime Western Smelter Company.
The offices of the company are in Moran at the corner of Randolph and Spruce
streets.
Mr. Straub has been very successful in business and has property
both in Kansas and in the State of Florida. In Florida he owns 2,000
acres of land, 400 acres in Osceola County and 1,600 acres in Polk County.
He has a half interest in 400 acres of farm land in Kansas and owns one
of the attractive residences in Moran at the corner of Spruce and Church
streets.
In politics Mr. Straub is an independent democrat.
While living at Rouseville, Pennsylvania, he served as justice of the peace.
He is a member of the Catholic Church and is affiliated with Oil City Camp
of the Modern Woodmen of America and with the Knights of the Maccabees
at Oil City.
In 1890 at Buffalo, New York, he married Miss Louisa Virginia
Wex. Her father, the late Capt. Peter Wex, was for a number
of years commander of a steamboat on Lake Erie. Mr. and Mrs. Straub
have four children: Evelyn is the wife of Ira P. Edwards,
residing at Moran. Mr. Edwards is chief clerk for the Eastern
Kansas Oil and Gas Company, Limited. Peter W. is in the second
year of high school, Helen is a freshman in high school, and the
youngest, Ruth Catherine, is in the grammar school. |
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