In 1849, he moved to California and established a trading post in Big Bar,[a] then another one in Coloma, and then building a store in San Francisco.
[1] Strong was a member of the Williamsburgh Board of Education, and he was one of the appointed commissioners to arrange the consolidation of that city with Brooklyn.
[3] While in the Senate, he wrote a bill that established the New York State Institution for the Blind in Batavia.
Their children were Richard Polk, Julia, William Davis, Clarrise, Joseph Lewis, George Jesse, Grace, Jeanie, Demas Swift, Morris Braddock, and Susie.
[1] Strong died in Atlantic City, New Jersey, where he was staying for health reasons, on November 9, 1893.