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 1854 - 1905 (50 years)
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| Name |
Ammon Strunk |
| Born |
25 May 1854 |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
16 Mar 1905 |
| Buried |
Schwarzwald Cemetery, Exeter Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania  |
| Person ID |
I006279 |
Strausstown Roots |
| Last Modified |
8 Apr 2014 |
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| Sources |
- [S151] Montgomery Bios, Morton L. Montgomery, (. H. Beers & Company of Chicago, 1909), 476 (Reliability: 1).
Ammon S. Strunk was born May 25, 1854, in Exeter township, and there spent his early life working on his father's farm, during the busy season also working for neighboring farmers. He received his education in the local common schools, which he attended during the winter time, and later taught school, doing excellent work in that profession in his young manhood. He graduated from the Lock Haven State Normal School in 1878. Later he was a valuable public servant, having been appointed census enumerator in 1880; in 1881 he was appointed deputy sheriff; in 1883 became deputy to the clerk of the Orphans' court; in 1884 was elected register of wills, serving a term of three years in that office. While in this office he registered as a law student in the office of D. Nicholas Schaeffer, Esq., and later was admitted to the Bar.
In 1904, while in the midst of a contest for the nomination for county controller, Mr. Strunk was stricken with paralysis. Though confined in the hospital and unable to direct his campaign personally, his friends almost succeeded in securing him the nomination under his powerful leadership and political sagacity. However, an independent candidate, Dr. H. F. Livingood, was elected by 4,088 majority over the regular nominee--something that had never happened in the Gibraltar of Democracy. He died March 16, 1905, thus ending a short but strenuous life.
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