MARTIN H. STRAUSS, a wholesale grocery merchant and a successful businessman of Allentown, is a native of Allen Township, Northampton County, and born May 5, 1864. After his education in the public schools he assisted his father in the mill, and about 1886 he entered the employ of A. J. Kleppinger, who was then located at 145-147 Hamilton Street, Allentown, conducting the wholesale grocery business. Mr. Strauss continued in the employ of Mr. Kleppinger until Kieppinger died in 1887, and in 1888 the firm of Strauss and Kleppinger was established which was succeeded by Martin H. Strauss in 1898, and in 1909 the Martin H. Strauss Co. was incorporated. In 1912, the latter company erected one of the largest wholesale grocery houses in the state. The building is located at the corner of Second and Foundry streets, Allentown. (See Vol. 1.) Mr. Strauss was married in 1890 to Ida M. Knauss, a daughter of Ephraim and Mary (Kline) Knauss, of Allentown. He and his family are members of Zion's Reformed Church and Mr. Strauss has served the church as a trustee and he is a deacon since the year 1907. He resides at 45 North Eleventh Street. Their children are all given the advantages of an education and their three oldest, Florence 1., Thomas M. and Grace E. are graduates of the Allentown High school.

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