Newton Co., IN Biography

Newton County, Washington Township.  From A History of Warren, Benton, 
Jasper & Newton Counties, 1883.

   ASHER M. STROLE was born in Virginia July 13, 1846.  When about
eleven years of age, his parents, William A. and Sarah A. (Kibler) 
Strole, came to Illinois, where the father farmed, the little boy
attending school and assisting on the farm.
   In 1859 they removed to Washington Township, Indiana, and purchased
wild land, the boy still in school and working some until twenty-one
years of age, when he worked steadily at farming.
   On March 20, 1872, he married Martha E. Downey, daughter of Eliezer
and Lydia Downey, of Virginia. They have two children--John J. and 
William A.  In 1870, he purchased eighty acres of land in Section 24, 
Washington Township, which is now well improved, and provided with
fine buildings.  He is a Master Mason, member of Brook Lodge, 458, of 
Brook, Indiana.  In politics, he is a Democrat of liberal views.  He 
attends the church of the United Brethren; his wife is a member of 
same.


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