Pauline Virginia Strout (1916-2001)

John Bell Williams of Mississippi, among others, hurled invective at Strout, sending a clear message the Federal Government had no plans to relinquish control of DC's citizens.

Arthur E. Strout passed away in February and today we remember his service on behalf of #DC #statehood

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In 1965, Arthur E. Strout testified in Congress as Chairman of the #DC Home Rule Committee for self-governance.

Strout: "[In DC], the basic ingredient of all urban government - a city administration responsive to the needs of its constituents - is conspicuously absent."

Anyone in the Rockport Maine area knowledgeable of area history? I haven't been able to find any information on Granite Rock Bottling Co in West Rockport Maine. I have found some similar bottles from other states, but nothing for West Rockport Co. Also shown is a Vess Dry bottle from the 1940s-50s

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Squadron Leader Graham Strout (1921-1950) of Adelaide was the Korean War's first #RAAF casualty & one of the first UN pilots shot down 🇦🇺

Despite the war having just begun, the Korean Army assisted in the recovery of his remains and buried him in Pusan, S. Korea

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Early #20thCentury photo by Leon Strout of the Androscoggin River Falls b/w Topsham & Brunswick, #Maine

courtesy of the Leon B. Strout Photograph Collection at Bowdoin College

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Ada Dinsmore Strout (1869-1942) of Cherryfield, Maine

#photosky #blackandwhite #portraits

If you’ve never read 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann, now’s the time. 📚✨
This book will completely shift how you think about the history of the Americas. Before colonization, this land was home to vast, complex, & sophisticated Indigenous civilizations -1/2

In the 1670s, Christopher Strout worked the sea at Marblehead bf settling in #CapeCod, where #NativeAmerican tribes had lived for 10,000 years.

Those tribes did not simply vanish.

Strouts.org is proud to present the 1st in a critical series on our #AmericanHistory

www.strouts.org/origins

Roger S. Strout in Brunswick, Maine circa 1907

photo by his father, courtesy of the Leon B. Strout Photograph Collection at Bowdoin College

#photosky #history #historicphotos #fotosky

Capt. Carl Strout (1882-1947) of #Maine became one of the most well-known steamship merchants on the West Coast ⚓️

In 1919, the Seattle Daily Times lauded Capt. Strout's safekeeping of 403,000 troops in #WWI aboard his ship, the Yale, "dodging Germany's swiftest submarines."

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for more about our family's contributions to #Americanhistory 🐋

Strout's husband, Mayor "Doc" Ames, was relected 3 times, until a journalist uncovered his massive police-assisted crime/corruption ring.

Dubbed "The Shame of Minneapolis," Ames' scandals were cited in Sarah Strout's obits as a reason for her early death at age 50.

In 1862, Sarah A. Strout, daughter of Union Captain Richard Strout, married a Union soldier who survived the war & became a doctor then, eventually, Mayor of #Minneapolis

Alberta Frances Strout (1912-1956) of Milbridge, ME at 20 years old

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Our poster boy, Capt. Joshua Strout (1825-1906)

One of four gens of Strouts to man the Portland Head Lighthouse in Maine, Capt. Strout is believed to have inspired "The Lighthouse" by Longfellow