Background
Strain, Harry Arthur was born on February 18, 1886 in Clinton, Illinois, United States. Son of Isaac Harry and Nancy (Underwood) Strain.
Strain, Harry Arthur was born on February 18, 1886 in Clinton, Illinois, United States. Son of Isaac Harry and Nancy (Underwood) Strain.
Graduate Clinton (Illinois) High School, 1904. Student Armour Institute Technology, Chicago, Illinois, 1910-1913.
Clerk, Illinois Central Railroad, Clinton, Illinois, 1904, American Steel and Wire Company, Joliet, Illinois, 1905-1906. Laborer, blast furnace, Joliet works, Illinois Steel Company, 1906-1910, foreman blast furnace, Chicago, Illinois, 1913-1915, superintendent blast furnaces, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1915-1920. Superintendent blast furnaces, Woodward Iron Company, Woodward, Alabama, 1921-1922.
Assistant superintendent blast furnace division, Illinois Steel Company, Chicago, 1922-1925, division superintendent blast furnaces, 1925-1936.
Assistant general superintendent, Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation, Chicago, 1936-1941, director of raw materials, fuel and power, Pittsburgh since 1941. President Fenimore Iron Mines, Limited., 1951-1952, Chairman of the Board, 1952-1953.
Member Donald Nelson Mission to China, 1944-1945, President Blast Furnace and Coke Association (Chicago district). Member American Institute Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, Theta Xi. Mason.; Club: South Shore Country (Chicago).
Married Elma Bradley, December 24, 1913. Children: Dorothy Jean (Mistress H. J. Katris), Jane Harriet (Mistress J. R. Hill).