1.  Marriage Record:

2.  1830 Census Index and Digital Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image #7 of 16; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•

1830

PA

Northumberland Co.

Borough of Milton

p. 140

Ln. 10

Abraham Straub

110 101-001 110

These data indicate:

No. & Sex	Age Class	Therefore Born	Individuals Inferred
1 male	4 or under	1825-1830	= Stephen (b. 1827?)
1 male	5-9	1820-1825	= John  (b. 1823)
1 male	15-19	1810-1815	= ?
1 male	30-39	1790-1800	= Abraham (b. 1794)
1 female	10-14	1815-1820	= ?
1 female	15-19	1810-1815	= ?
1 female	20-29	1800-1810	= Nancy (b. 1804)

Abraham is old enough to have parented these older children, but Nancy is not.  These children are also too old to be those of Andrew's recently widowed brother, Joseph.  Did Abraham have a prior wife?  Listed two lines from Anna Maria (STRAUB) MARKLE, Abraham's first cousin. 

3.  1840 Census Index and Digital Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image #6 of 18; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•

1840

PA

Northumberland Co.

Borough of Milton

p. 140B

Ln. 3

Abraham Straub

120 100 100 - 010 011 000

_______

These data indicate:

No. & Sex	Age Class	Therefore Born	Individuals Inferred
1 male	4 or under	1835-1840	= Ambrose (b. 1837/8)
2 male	5-9	1830-1835	= Clement (b. 1833) = Stephen (b. 1827?)
1 male	15-19	1820-1825	= John (b. 1823)
1 male	40-49	1790-1800	= Abraham (b. 1794)
1 female	5-9	1830-1835	= Elizabeth (b. 1830)
1 female	20-29	1810-1820	= ?
1 female	30-39	1800-1810	= Nancy (b. 1804)

4.  1850 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image #30 of 41 — mis-indexed as "Staub"):  Borough of Milton, Northumberland Co., PA, p. 69A/155A, 212/216, enumberated 27 Aug 1850 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•

Abraham Straub	55	M	Surveyor	5000	Pa
Nancy Straub	45	F			Pa
Caroline "	20	F			Pa
Clement  "	17	M	None		Pa
Ambrose  "	12	M			Pa
William  "	10	M			Pa
Mary     "	6	F			Pa

5.  1860 Census Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image #386 of 744):  Milton P.O., Milton Borough, Northumberland Co., PA, p. 385, 1449/1441, enumerated 9 Aug 1860, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1860 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•

Abraham Straub	60	M		Surveyer	3000	300	Pennsylvania
Nancy      "	56	F					do
Clement C  "	26	M		Clerk			do
William A  "	20	M		App Carpenter			do
Lydia Eckbert	22	F		Domestic			do
Amelia Rush	14	F					do
Mary Noaker	28	F		Domestic			do
Robert Bailey	20	M		Jour Printer			do
Dan Ludwig	18	M		App Printer			do
Thos Brooks	22	M		Painter			do
Anna   "	17	F					do
Dan ? Reich	27	M		Carpenter			do

6.  Messages in the Straub Family Genealogy Forum (online at GenForum.com):  including Message #146 from Kathy Satteson citing A Genealogist's Guide to Burials in Northumberland County, Vol. VI, which gives these data from Harmony Cemetery, Milton:

Abraham Straub Dec 9 1794 - Aug 2 1884 Nancy Balliett Oct 26 1804 - Dec 25 1861

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.  Biographical sketch of Abraham's father, Andrew Straub, Founder of Milton, on pp. 41-42. 

9.  Herbert C. Bell.  1891.  History of Northumberland County.  Brown, Runk, & Co. , Chicago.

TURBUT TOWNSHIP... MILLS. . . In 1840 Abraham and Isaac Straub removed their extensive grain and lumber mills from the island opposite Milton to the mouth of Muddy run. They were the inventors of a reaction water-wheel, the first in the United States, and their operations were quite extensive. Their water power was derived from the river, dams having been constructed on both sides of the island; but the erection of the Lewisburg dam interfered with these arrangements, and hence the selection of a new location at the mouth of Muddy run.  Chamberlain & Bisel, Yager & Bisel, John Ott, and W.B. Kemerer successively continued the business; on the 28th of March, 1874, the mill was burned, involving a loss of twenty thousand dollars. It was immediately replaced by the present building, a substantial frame structure.

10.  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 correct, they contain much valuable information, so are worth consulting. See Archives of the STRAUB-L mailing list (online at RootsWeb.com) and search on "Gearhart."

11.  Barbara Manning.  1995.  Genealogical Abstracts from Newspapers of the German Reformed Church, 1840-1843.  Heritage Books, Bowie, MD.  (Courtesy of Gwen Boyer Bjorkman.)  On p. 125:

29 Sep 1841 Monies by Rev. P.S. Fischer from Abraham Straub Esq. (Milton)

12.  Archives of the STRAUB-L mailing list (online at RootsWeb.com), including especially posts by Jim burnell, Frank Stroup, and Gwen Boyer Bjorkman.