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James Brown Straw Sr.
(1794-1830)
Mehitable Fisk
(1800-1873)
Capt Nathaniel Webster
(1793-1870)
Mary Bartlett
(1796-1880)
Gov Ezekiel Albert Straw
(1819-1882)
Charlotte Smith Webster
(1823-1852)

Herman Foster Straw
(1849-1929)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Mary Onslow Parker

Herman Foster Straw

  • Born: 30 Dec 1849, Manchester, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire
  • Marriage (1): Mary Onslow Parker on 18 Sep 1873 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
  • Died: 8 Jul 1929, Amoskeag, New Hampshire at age 79
  • Buried: Pine Grove Cemetery Manchester, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA

bullet   Cause of his death was Cardio/renal disease;acute dilitation of heart.

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bullet  General Notes:

May also have been known as William Herman Straw and William Herman Foster Straw. sources include: research of James Townsend of CA; genealogy of Ellen Straw Thompson in 1897 and Stearns Gen and Fam Hist of NH. which states that Herman attended Harvard College [graduated 1872]. Later he joined his father in business mastering all the details of the mfg of cotton goods. In 1885 he was made agent of the Amoskeag MFG CO which in 1907 employed 13,000 people. Sue Phaneuf claims he died in Amoskeag, NH

NEHGS MA VR marriage records 1st marriage for both Herman F. Straw [age 23 b. Manchester, NH; s/o Ezekiel A. and Charlotte W.] and Mary O Parker [age 20 b. Concord, NH; d/o William M and Susan J]

Amoskeag: Life and Work in an American Factory-City (Library of New England) (authors) Tamara K. Hareven and Randolph Langenbach "The Amoskeag Compnay was unusual in that it had only six agents in its entire history. Three of them were from three generations of the same family: the Straws...Ezekiel Straw who later became govenor of New Hampshire, first became agent in 1856, having worked as an engineer for the company since 1838. He set the pattern for corporate paternalism, which his son, Herman, later retained adapted to a newly arrived immigrant labor force. Most of the people in this book were contemporaries of Herman Straw and his son William Parker Straw, and spent the major part of their working lives under their regime.Herman Straw whose tenant as agent represents the peak period in the Amoskeag's development retired as agent in 1919 but continued to act as a consultant for the company until his death in 1929. William Parker Straw failed to command the same loyalty and respect as ah\\had his father particularly during the period of the corporation's decline and the labor struggles of the 1920s. to most workers the Straws were theAmoskeag......." "Herman Straw was one of the most loveable men you'd ever meet. His son Parker Straw was very shy and didn't mix easily......"

census 1870 Hillsborough, NH Ezekiel A. Straw c1820 Charlotte W. c1848 Herman c1850 Clara c1851 Ellen c1852

1880 Census PlaceManchester, Hillsborough, New Hampshire Herman STRAW Birth Year<1850> BirthplaceNH Age30 OccupationCotton Mill Marital StatusM <Married> RaceW <White> Head of HouseholdHerman STRAWRelationSelf Father's BirthplaceNH Mother's BirthplaceNH 1900-1910 Manchester Ward 2, Hillsborough County, NH Herman F. STRAW 1850 Mary O. 1854 Herman F. 1894 H. Ellis 1883 Wm Parker 1878 there were also 2 female servants in the household and a female housekeeper

Place of burial per James W. Straw research

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Will probated 15 July 1929.
Estate of $110,000.00 divided among sons and grandchildren
1/4 to each son: Wm Parker Straw, Harry Ellis Straw and Herman Foster Straw Jr [Wm and Harry were Executors]
1/4 equally to grandson Ezekliel Albert Straw and grand daughter Mary Straw Flanders

Harvard College Class of 1872 Tenth Report of the Secretary: 1917
HERMAN FOSTER STRAW
Born at Manchester, N.H., December 29, 1849
Parents: Ezekiel Albert, Charlotte (Webster) Straw
School: St. Paul's School, Concord, N.H.
Degree: A.B. 1872
Married: Mary Onslow Parker, Boston, Mass., September 18, 1873
Occupat1on: Amoskeag Mfg. Co., Manchester, N.H.
Address: Manchester, N.H.

Have been in the employ of the Amoskeag Mfg. Co., Manchester, N.H., since my graduation in 1872, and have been the resident manager and agent since 1885.
[His son, Herman Foster Straw, Jr., enlisted in the Navy in the Chicago District about the first of July, and is just now stationed on the Detroit River Patrol.]


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Herman married Mary Onslow Parker, daughter of William McAfee Parker and Susan Judkins, on 18 Sep 1873 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. (Mary Onslow Parker was born on 13 Sep 1853 in Concord, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, died on 4 Feb 1929 in Manchester, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire and was buried in Pine Grove Cemetery Manchester, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA.). The cause of her death was Endocarditis.




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