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Ralph Beaver Strassburger papers
Ralph Beaver Strassburger (1883-1959) or Norristown, Pennsylvania, was a naval officer, politician, and newspaper publisher. A graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and the U.S. Naval Academy, he served in the U.S. Navy, 1905-1909 and 1917-1919. In 1911 he married May Bourne, daughter of Frederick Gil...
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| Collection: | Ralph Beaver Strassburger Papers |
| Collection Number: | 3819 |
| Format: | Manuscript |
| Language: | English |
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Physical Description Note: Mold (apparently non-active) on black vinyl cover of farms report. Large photos are curled or bent. |
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2.5 Linear feet 2 boxes, 1 flat file |
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Ralph Beaver Strassburger (1883-1959) or Norristown, Pennsylvania, was a naval officer, politician, and newspaper publisher. A graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and the U.S. Naval Academy, he served in the U.S. Navy, 1905-1909 and 1917-1919. In 1911 he married May Bourne, daughter of Frederick Gilbert Bourne, president of the Singer Sewing Machine Company. In the early 1920s, he purchased two Norristown newspapers and merged them to form the Norristown Times Herald. He ran unsuccessfully for the U.S House of Representatives in 1914 and served as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1936.
The collection includes correspondence, typescripts, newspaper clippings, reports, ephemera, maps, photographs, and other items. There is a Ralph Strassburger notebook/scrapbook, 1900-1908, a 1941 typed report on the "Farms of Ralph Beaver Strassburger," two copies of a privately printed book, "Dark Island" (about an island in the Thousand Islands that features a castle that was owned by Frederick Bourne), a large photograph of Strassburger as a young man in U.S. naval uniform, and a wide-format portrait photo of the members of Battery C, 8th A.A.T Battalion, Ft. Eustic, Virginia, from 1942, which includes Strassburger's son, J.A.P. (Johann Andreas Peter) Strassburger. |