Luther Gould Straw

  General Notes:

Genealogy of Ellen Straw Thompson 1897; research of G. Blackburn (GA)

census 1870 Essex, MA Samuel E. c1823 age 47 (HOH) Sarah J. c1834 age 36 (wife) Clara W. c1857 age 13 (d/o Samuel Eastman Straw) Arthur W. Straw c1861 age 9 (s/o S.E.Straw) Luther G. c1864 age 6 (s/o S.E. Straw) Celia L. c1868 age 2 (d/o S.E.Straw)

Name: Luther G. STRAW Age: 16 Estimated birth year: <1864> Birthplace: Massachusetts Occupation: Work In Sh. Factory Relation: Son Home in 1880: Danvers, Essex, Massachusetts Marital status: Single Race: White Gender: Male Head of household: Samuel E. STRAW Father's birthplace: NH Mother's birthplace: NH

the following was written by Jane Merril his grand daughter: ".....at 12 yrs of age , his father died and being the eldest son, Grandpa went to work in Lynn in the shoe factory in order to support the family. At some point in time he married Mary...and they moved to Salem. They had three children..following the death of Mary her children went to live with their maternal relatives in So. Berwick, ME.... At the time of the great Salem fire in 1914 grandpa's factory was burned.... Because the unions were moving into MA mills and factories, Grandpa made the decision to move to Augusta, ME and took over a factory in Hollewell... Grandpa lost his money in the stock market crash in 1929 (aided aparently by poor investments in Florida real estate suggested by great-grandma Sykes)..they...took in room renters...Grandpa took over the vegetable garden- back to his earliest years as a farmer- and they were able to make a good and comfortable life for themselves...."

per J Hadley - "At the age of twenty he entered the employ of J. E. Farrar & CO., shoe manufacturers of Danvers, MA., later a partner in MeKean & Appleton, Salem, MA. head of L.G. Straw & Dunham Co., Salem, MA; President of the Marston and Brooks Co., Hallowell, ME. These firms were extensively engaged in shoe manufacturing."

Per Salem MA Directory of 1890-1894 Luther G. Straw, boot and shoe manufactures bus Name: L. G. Straw and Co, 14 Norman St, Salem, MA

NEHGS MA VR Danvers marriage records Luther G. Straw age 32 a shoe manufacturer born Danvers second marriage to Jennie M Young age 22 born Canada to Lewis and Emily Goding Young - her first marriage

1900 census Salem, Essex, MA Luther 1864 Jennie 1874 Ethel 1889 Gertrude 1898 Beatrice 1900

1920 Augusta Ward 3, Kennebec, Maine Luther G. STRAN 1867 Jennie 1877 Beatrice M. 1900 Ethel M. 1898 Also living in Hallowell, Kennebec county, ME is: Luther's son Chester. Chester F. 1892 Marie B. 1895 Chester F. Jr. 1918

1940 Augusta, Kennebec, ME
Luther G. Straw age 76 b. MA; res in 1935: same house
Jennie M. Straw age 66 b. VT; res 1935: same house
George Traynor a lodger b. 1877 ME; married; res 1935 same place

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Luther married Mary A. Roberts, daughter of Charles C. Roberts and Hannah G. Furbush, on 25 Nov 1885 in Danvers, Essex County, Massachusetts. (Mary A. Roberts was born on 17 Nov 1861 in North Berwick, York County, Maine, died on 28 Aug 1893 and was buried in Boyd Plot in South Berwick, York County, Maine.). The cause of her death was consumption (TB).

Luther next married Jane Marie Young, daughter of Lewis Young and Emily Goding, on 23 Sep 1897 in Danvers, Essex County, Massachusetts. (Jane Marie Young was born in 1874 in Derby Line, Orleans County, Vermont, died on 9 Feb 1965 in Augusta, Kennebec County, Maine and was buried in Wadsworth Cemetery in Danvers, Massachusetts.)