[1] His father was a German immigrant who came to America in the mid-19th century and founded a large woolen mill in Newburgh, New York.
In 1927, Justice Victor J. Dowling appointed him a member of an advisory committee to draft a plan for an automobile compensation bureau.
[4] In 1911, Mayor William Jay Gaynor appointed Stroock a trustee of the College of the City of New York.
In later years, he became concerned with clarifying the legal interpretation of the powers and duties of the Board of Higher Education and was involved with finding a site for Brooklyn College.
[10] In 1921, he married his second wife, Mrs. Nellie G. Loeb, at the St. Regis Hotel, with Judge Benjamin N. Cardozo performing the ceremony.
The funeral was attended by, among other people, Felix M. Warburg of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., John H. Finley, former New York Attorney General Albert Ottinger, Board of Education president George J. Ryan, author Rebecca Kohut, Rabbi Louis Finkelstein, Max D. Steuer, former president of the Board of Aldermen and City College trustee George McAneny, Professor Louis Sayre Buchard, Justice Thomas W. Churchill, Frederick Hausman of A.
A. Hausman & Co., Jewish Theological Seminary librarian Professor Lewis Marks, Congregation B'nai Jeshurun president Charles W. Endel, Justice Isaac Cohen, Jewish Educational Association president Israel Unterberg, and former vice-president of Engineering News Alfred E. Kornfeld.