Myer Strouse

Myer Strouse (December 16, 1825 – February 11, 1878) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Myer Strouse was born in Oberstrau, Kingdom of Bavaria to a Jewish family.

[1] He immigrated to the United States in 1832 with his father, who settled in Pottsville, Pennsylvania.

He attended private schools and edited the North American Farmer in Philadelphia from 1848 to 1852.

He resumed the practice of law, and was attorney and solicitor for the "Molly Maguires," a secret organization in the mining regions of Pennsylvania, in 1876 and 1877.