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Source: The Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Fulton County
Munsell Publishing Co., Chicago, 1908

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The Biography of Robert STRODE 

[Surnames: CLEMENS, STRODE] 

STRODE, ROBERT

    
Of the younger generation of agriculturalists who continue to dwell amid the surroundings of their boyhood and with their newer energy and broad outlook augmenting the labor of their sires upon landmark homestead, mention is doe Robert Strode, who was born where he now lives on Sect. 23, Farmer Twp., on June 30, 1876. Mr. Strode is a son of James Patterson and Hannah (CLEMENS) Strode, and grandson of James Strode, all of whom were born in Ohio, and settled in an early day in Fulton County. 
    
James Patterson Strode was educated in the subscription schools of OH and IL and after his marriage entered 160 acres of Government land in Farmer Twp. He went to Kansas to look over country and while there served in the border war. Returning to Fulton Co., he continued farming until the breaking out of the Civil War, when he enlisted in the 50th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, being elected 2nd. Lt. of his companyl, in which he served for three years. 
    
When peace was restored he resumed his quiet pastoral life in Fulton Co., but in 1883 he went to Nebraska, where in Custer Co., he homesteaded 320 acres. From 1886 to 1889 he lived in Table Grove, Fulton Co., when he again settled on the old homestead, where his death occurred in 1901. He was a successful farmer and left to his heirs the Custer Co., farm in Nebraska, and 223 acres in Farmers Twp., Fulton Co. He was a staunch Republican and holder of a number of important local offices. Robert Strode was educated in the public schools of the country and of Table Grove, and at the age of 21 succeeded to the entire management of the home farm. The brother, referred to is one of the leading legal practitioners of Lincoln, Neb. Mr. Strode devides his attention to general farming and stock-raising. He is a loyal Republican, and a popular member of the Masonic Order and Knights of Pythias.