U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Strickler, Isaac Harrison (b. 1816) ------------------------------------------------------------------- The History of Barbour County, West Virginia, From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time by Hu Maxwell The Acme Publishing Company, Morgantown, W.Va., 1899 Page 467 Isaac Harrison Strickler, born July 27, 1816, in Page County, Virginia, son of Joseph and Mary (Miley) Strickler, was married at Philippi September 30, 1850, to Margaret J., daughter of Rev. Solomon and Elizabeth (Rightmire) Jarvis. Children, Robert Mann, Joseph Thomas (died young), Arthur DeWitt, Mary Alice, Sarah Belle (died young), Anna Elizabeth, Catherine Crim, Etta Jane, Clara Antonia. He was a Baptist, Odd Fellow, Good Templar, Democrat and a merchant. His was the first store in Philippi, and it stood in the rear of the present school building, near the old ferry. It was the firm of Almon & Strickler for a year. The store was opened (1843) in a stable. Three years later he built a brick store. He was the first postmaster in Philippi and held the office seventeen years. He went to the South during the war, served as a soldier, an officer, and later as a contractor. He also kept store for a time at Buckingham Court House with L. D. Morrall. In 1866 he opened a store in Philippi with Granville E. Jarvis, whom he subsequently bought out, and continued the business till his death in 1885. His son, Rev. Robert Mann Strickler, married Laura R., daughter of Colonel Mann Spitler, of Luray, Virginia. The Stricklers came from a German canton in Switzerland to Pennsylvania soon after the settlement of Philadelphia. Of the four brothers, one located in Philadelphia, one in Lancaster, one in York, and the fourth, Abraham, in Chester; and in 1728 settled on the Susquehanna River. Jacob, son of Abraham, went to the Valley of Virginia about 1731 and bought 1000 acres of Jacob Stover on the Massanutton, and 640 acres on South River. He was a Menonite preacher. Later (about 1750) another Strickler, of the same family, settled in what is now Page County, Virginia, and he had a son Joseph, who was president of the Page County Court, Assessor and Clerk, and died in 1856. This man was the father of Isaac H. Strickler. There is in the family a Bible printed at Zurich, Switzerland, in 1536. ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Barbour County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/barbour/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------