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THOMAS STRONACH, a retired farmer, and a worthy pioneer of Louisa County of June, 1840, now residing in Columbus City, was born in Baltimore County, Md., Oct. 20, 1822, and is a son of William and Sarah (McBee) Stronach. His father was born in Scotland, in 1799, and after his emigration to America in 1818, made his home near Baltimore, where he was united in marriage with Miss Sarah McBee, a native of Maryland. In 1837 Thomas removed with his parents to Columbus, Ohio, and three years later came to Louisa County, the family settling on a farm two and a half miles south of Columbus City, where the father purchased a claim, and engaged in farming until his death, which occurred April 30, 1875. The mother survived her husband dying in the fall of 1879. In early life William Stronach was a Whig in political sentiment, but later became a Republican. Both parents were members of the Congregational Church, and were worthy Christian people.
Our subject was reared upon a farm, and has made farming the avocation of his life. Since . . .
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. . . 1840 he has continued to reside in Louisa County, and of late years has made his home at Columbus City. In politics he is a Greenbacker, and is opposed to all monopolies and trusts. He takes broad and liberal grounds both in political matters and in religion, and rates people as he finds them rather than from that which they profess, having an intense dislike and contempt for all shams and shallow pretensions. While his life has been uneventful, Mr. Stronach has done his part in improving and developing this new country. His life has been such that all with whom business or pleasure have brought him in contact, can testify to the innate goodness of his heart, and to his plain, unassuming honesty. Columbus City may have men who make more noise and greater pretensions to piety and godliness, but deep down in the inner consciousness of every man, woman or child, who knows the subject of this sketch, there rests an assurance that he is the peer of many in all that goes to make up a true man.
