DOB given as 4/29/1828

Thomas Strauss, who died May 11, 1913, was one of Allentown's aged and respected citizens. His death occurred at his residence just beyond Sixth and Sumner Ave.. Allentown, in Whitehall Township. He was 86 years old on Apr. 29. He taught school in earlier life and later was a farmer upon his father's farm, and this property passed to our subject after the death of his father John in 1852. He successfully managed the farm for seventeen years when he purchased the milling property in Whitehall township at the limit of North Sixth Street. He was the first miller in the Lehigh Valley to introduce spring wheat in milling and also the first to sell Minnesota flour for which he built up a large trade. He made many improvements to the historic mill properly and continued to operate it until his retirement in 1905 but the mill remained in his name until after his death. He was a deacon for three years and elder for ten years of Zion Stone Church at Kreidersville, also a deacon and elder in Zion's Reformed Church, of Allentown. He married in 1851 Eliza, a daughter of Conrad and Elizabeth (Strauss) Keck.

Thomas Strauss was married to his second wife, Isabelle, daughter of Nathan Weiler, and they had two children.