Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1878 — A Han with Thirty Children. [ARTICLE]

A Han with Thirty Children.

The Strohl family, of this county is probably the largest family in toe United States. The head of the house is-Nich-olas Strohl, a Pennsylvania German, about 76 years old. By three wives he has had thirty children, twenty-seven of whom are living. His first wif* presented him with eight, his second with eleven, and his third with eleven. The youngest child is now 3 years old, and was born when its father was 73 years old. Of toe twenty-seven children nineteen are married, aud their families average about eight children. My. Joel Strohl, one df th 6 well-known farmers" in the lowetehd, and child of his farmer’s first wife, has seventeen children, and. he is not an old man by any means. He is the father of two pairs of twins, a distinction which his father, Mr. Nicholas Strohl, never attained. If the famiKes should gather together there would be oyer 200 persons. They nearly all reside in this county. Old Mr. Strohl is still hearty and bids fair to live many years."— Mauch Chunk Coal Gazrite.