Background
Strassburger, Ralph Beaver was born on March 26, 1883 in Norristown, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Jacob Andrew and Mary Jane (Beaver) Strassburger.
Strassburger, Ralph Beaver was born on March 26, 1883 in Norristown, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Jacob Andrew and Mary Jane (Beaver) Strassburger.
Graduate Philips Exeter Academy, also United States Naval Academy, 1905. Doctor of Laws, Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania, 1930.
1 son, Johann Andreas Peter. Resigned from Navy, 1909. Appointed by President Taft counsel general and secretary of Legation to Roumania, Bulgaria and Serbia, 1913, later 2d secretary Embassy, Tokio.
Junior and senior Lieutenant United States Navy, World War.
Public Norristown Times Herald. Owner Normandy Farm, breeder of thoroughbred and hunting horses and Ayrshire cattle.
Owns racing stables in America, France, England and Ireland.
Member Huguenot Society of Pennsylvania (president), Colonial Society of Pennsylvania (councillor), South.R., Society Foreign Wars, History Society Pennsylvania, General Society Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania German Society (president), American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Clubs: Bryn Mawr Polo, Racquet.
Married May Bourne, 1911.