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1. Marriage Record:
2. 1830 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com):
not found, but he may not have been married yet.
3. 1840 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com):
can't find, and I really looked, including page-by-page checks of Bloomfield,
Centre Twp., and Tyrone Twp. in Perry Co., PA. Given that George
was probably a widower — his youngest child was born in 1835/6 — he was
probably living with another family, so did not get enumerated as head-of-household.
4. 1850 Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com;
Image #11 of 14): Borough of Bloomfield, [Centre Twp.,] Perry Co.,
PA, Roll, p. 428A/873, 72/84, enumerated 4 Sep 1850, official enumeration
date 1 Jun 1850 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•
| George Stroop |
45 |
M |
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Editor |
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Pa |
| Jane
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16 |
F |
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| George " |
14 |
M |
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| John M Laird? |
16 |
M |
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Printer |
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" |
5. Harry Harrison Hain. 1929. History of Perry
County, Pennsylvania. Hain-Moore Co., Harrisburg, PA (online
at HeritageQuest at Genealogy.com):
| p. 341 |
CARSON LONG INSTITUTE, FORMERLY NEW BLOOMFIELD
ACADEMY... |
| p. 342 |
[Paraphrasing: George Stroop was one of the founding
directors of "The Bloomfield Seminary" in 1837.] |
| p. 476 |
The Liverpool Mercury, called after a
paper in Liverpool, England, of the same name, was the second paper to
be established in Perry County. It was started by John Huggins, of
a then prominent family in eastern Perry County. It was started July
1, 1831, and was a five-column, four-page paper. The subscription
price was $2 per year. In Jun, 1836, it was moved to New Bloom field,
and published by James B. Cooper, who then owned it, as The Mercury
and Perry Intelligencer. He sold to Stroop & Sample,
who merged it with the Perry County Democrat.
George Stroop and James E. Sample, on Octoer 7, 1836, started
the publication of The Mercury and Perry County Democrat, a five-column,
four-page paper. In December of the same year it was made a six-column
paper. Sample retired November 16, 1837, and from Stroop,
who was an associate judge of the county at one time, in January, 1854,
it passed to his son, George Stroop, and John A. Magee, a son of
the early proprietor of the Forester. In 1858 Stroop sold
his interest to Magee, whose son, James S. Magee is the present owner... |
| p. 484 |
Several other county seat editors long stood
out prominent in the annals of Perry County. Two of them, John A.
Magee and John H. Sheibley, were born in the same year, 1827, and throughout
their long lives were close friends, although they represented opposing
political parties. John A. Magee was a son of Alexander Magee, editor
of Perry County's first paper, The Forester, and Sarah (Crever)
Magee. His common school education was supplemented by a course at
the Bloomfield Academy. In 1854 he |
| p. 485 |
entered the office of George Stroop, then
editor of the Perry County Democrat, to learn the printing trade.
He then followed printing elsewhere, after completing his trade, and taught
school for a short time. He was working as a journeyman in Washington,
D.C., in 1853, and when George Stroop died in 1854, he and George
Stroop, Jr. purchased the Democrat, Mr. Magee later (in 1858)
securing entire control. He served in the Pennsylvania Legislature
during the session of 1862-63 as assemblyma. In 1872 he was elected
to Congress from the district composed of Perry, Cumberland and York Counties.
He conducted the Democrat until his death, November 18, 1903. The
Democrat
under John A. Magee was noted for its strong and able support of democracy
and all public policies. |
| p. 1042 |
An act of the Pennsylvania Legislature, dated
April 4, 1838, provided for the building of the first bridge "at the Juniata's
mouth," and named George Stroop [and 15 others] as stockholders. |
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