Alexander Strausz (1829–1905) was a Hungarian-born American brewer, cartographer, architect, mining engineer, industrialist and school superintendent.
Strausz (pronounced strooss) was born to a well-to-do family in Budapest, Hungary, as evident by his educated abilities.
On 18 April 1851, he arrived in the United States at the port of Boston, Massachusetts, with a letter of introduction to Edward Everett.
They had two children, Fenton Egbert who died of a brain tumor (1900–1910) and Mary Helen (1912–2011) in St. Louis, Missouri.
Upon Alex Jr.'s death, Mary Helen Hubbard Strausz took her four-year-old daughter to Los Angeles, California and eventually remarried.
Henry Noble "Harry" Strausz would serve in the 6th Ohio Infantry during the Spanish War, and later became a dentist in New Orleans, Louisiana.
As the Mississippi Campaign focused on Vicksburg, Admiral David Dixon Porter required updated and accurate navigational charts of the area in November 1862.
Under a flag of truce, he was able to sketch out the battery positions, convincing Porter of the impracticality of attacking the place by water alone.
He partnered with Lawson E. Rice to form the Cape Fear Building Co. A few structures that he either designed or built still remain and are listed in the National Register of Historical Places.
In 1878, a fellow émigré and brother-in-law, Col. Felix de Nemegyei, hired him when he briefly lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to manage the Irondale Furnace near Independence, West Virginia, producing wrought iron.
In 1879, he provided a statement to Sophia Kroehl on the nature of her late husband's illness to be included in her pension application.
[7] Annie Young Strausz is buried along with one small son in West View Cemetery in Palatka, Florida.