[Gristmillers] Straub family ties.

[Ken Christison]

Jeb,

My information came from various sources dug up from Ancestry.com, 
a subscription based genealogy web presence.  My wife is seriously
involved in genealogy.  Below is one of the sources quoted.

>From Bell's History of Northumberland County 1891: ABRAHAM STRAUB was born 
in Milton, Northumberland county, December 9, 1794, son of Andrew Straub and 
twin brother of Isaac Straub. He received the ordinary education of that period, 
learned the tanner's trade, and carried on a tannery in Milton until 1824, at 
which time he sold out and joined his brother Isaac in what were known as the 
Birchwood Mills, on the island opposite Milton, where they were engaged in the 
lumber and milling business a number of years. They invented and introduced 
into their mill the first reaction water wheel probably ever used in the State. They 
also had a railroad track to their mill and yard. In 1832 and 1883 they erected 
the first bridges over the West Branch of the Susquehanna at Milton, which were 
carried away by the flood of March 17, 1865. In 1834 Isaac retired from the firm 
and went to Lewistown, where he engaged in merchandising. Abraham 
continued to operate the mills until 1840, when be took down the grist mill and 
moved it to Muddy Run, two miles above Milton, where he continued the milling 
business until 1853, when he sold the same and erected a bridge across the 
Susquehanna river at Uniontown. After the completion of this undertaking he 
turned his attention to the invention of a centrifugal pump. He was a 
self-educated surveyor, and became one of the foremost in this section of the 
State. November 29, 1821, he married Nancy Balliet, whose father was a native 
of Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, and a settler in Limestone, Montour county. They 
were the parents of the following children: John Andrew, deceased; Ambrose 
White, who died in infancy; Stephen Daniel, of Hagerstown, Maryland; Elizabeth 
Caroline, wife of Rev. William Goodrich; Clement Calvin, of Milton; Ambrose 
White, of Philadelphia; William Alfred, of Cumberland, Maryland, and Mary 
Louisa, deceased. He died, August 21, 1864. Isaac Straub left Lewistown in 1838 
and went to Cincinnati, where he died, December 17, 1875. Christian Straub 
taught school and engaged in merchandising in Schuylkill county, where he 
served as sheriff; he was also elected to the Pennsylvania legislature and to 
Congress, but died before the expiration of his term, and was buried in the 
congressional burying ground at Washington, D. C.
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