This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZAQBAEB/78 Message Board Post: C. A. Strack C. A. Strack, furniture dealer and undertaker, is a native of York, Penn., born March 4, 1843, son of Charles A. and Caroline (Funk) Strack. The father was a native of Saxony, Germany, born in 1810, and the mother was born in 1806. In 1838 the ancestors of our subject emigrated from Germany to America and settled in Baltimore, Md., and in 1839 removed to York, where subject’s father died in 1855. At the age of twelve years our subject began learning the cabinet maker’s trade under an elder brother, and in this capacity continued five years, after which he became general manager of the furniture and undertaking business. Mr. Strack’s father was one of the early furniture dealers of York. In 1878 subject purchased his mother’s interest in the business, and since that time has been doing business for himself. He was married, in 1865, to Mary M. Heckert, a naïve of York. Six children were born to this union: Carrie S., Emma J., Charles P., R! ebecca B., Samuel H. and Fannie M. Mr. Strack is a Democrat, and has been a member of the borough school board and identified with the numerous associations of York. He and his wife are members of the Trinity German Reformed Church. Taken from the book, “History of York County, Illustrated 1886” by John Gibson, Historical Editor