JAMES D. STROUD, a progressive and intelligent agriculturist of Fallowfield township, is a native of Washington county, born on the family homestead, April 6, 1856. He is a son of John Stroud, whose father, a native of Maryland, made a settlement in Pennsylvania. John Stroud was born in 1818 in Washington county, Penn., and learned the blacksmith's trade which he followed during a considerable part of his younger life. In 1855 he was married to Martha Yant, who bore him two sons, James D. and William A., the latter of whom was married to a daughter of Clark Crow. After his marriage John Stroud abandoned his trade, and gave his undivided attention to farming and stock raising. In 1880 he was laid to rest; his widow is yet living on the old place in Fallowfield township. James D. Stroud, the subject proper of this biographical memoir, has passed all his life in his native township. On August 7, 1880, he was united in marriage with Jennie, daughter of Henry Hannan, a prominent farmer of Washington county, and three sons and one daughter have blessed their union, namely: Charley A., John W. B., Walter L. and Bessie Viola. Mr. Stroud's farm, on which he has resided eleven years, contains 117 acres of well-cultivated land, lying six miles southwest of Monongahela, and here he carries on general agriculture, devoting considerable attention to the raising of sheep and other live stock.

Text taken from page 1403 of: Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893). Transcribed January 1997 by Neil and Marilyn Morton of Oswego, IL as part of the Beers Project. Published January 1997 on the Washington County, PA USGenWeb pages at http://www.chartiers.com/.

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