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Straub is a Germanic surname that literally means "one with bushy or bristly hair". [1] Its original meaning in Middle High German is "rough" or "unkempt". [2] It may also refer to people who come from Straubing in Germany. [1] Spelling variations of Straub include Straube, Strauber, Straubinger, Strauble, Strob, Strobel, Strube, Strub, Strufe, Struwe, and Struwing. [3]

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The first known Straub in the United States was Johannes Straub, one of the Palatine Germans brought to New York in 1710. [4] There were later arrivals, especially in the Pennsylvania Deutsch region and Ohio, most with an origin in Baden-Württemberg, Hesse-Darmstadt, Rhineland-Palatinate, Bavaria, Austria, the German cantons of Switzerland, and Alsace-Lorraine. Some Straubs who had earlier migrated east out of Germany, settling in German enclaves in Russia and Austria-Hungary (now Romania), have subsequently immigrated to the U.S. as well.

There were two notable breweries founded in Pennsylvania by Straub immigrants. The earliest was the J. N. Straub & Company brewery founded in the 1840s in Alleghany (now Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania, by John N. Straub, immigrant from Hesse-Darmstadt. The other was the Straub Brewery founded in 1872 in St. Marys, Pennsylvania, by Peter P. Straub, immigrant from Felldorf, Württemberg.

Other notable landmarks and companies named after a Straub include Bob Straub State Park in Oregon and Straub Hall at the University of Oregon in Eugene; Straub's Markets, a St. Louis, Missouri-based specialty food retailer; Straub Clinic & Hospital in Hawaii. Straub Honda Dealership in Wheeling, West Virginia

During the Second World War there was a Sclass Cannon destroyer escort named USS Straub that was built for the U.S. Navy. The ship was named after its sponsor, Mrs. Margaret H. Straub.

There is also an asteroid named 6147 Straub.

Notable Straubs

Notable individuals with the surname Straub include:

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References

  1. 1 2 Smith, Elsdon Coles (2003). American Surnames . Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. p.  18. ISBN   0-8063-1150-9.
  2. ↑ Hanks, Patrick (2003). Dictionary of American Family Names: 3-Volume Set. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 420. ISBN   0-19-508137-4.
  3. ↑ Breitbard, Gail Ann (1970). Notes on the early history in this country of the Straus (Stroop, Stroup, Straup, Strubb, Strupp, Strope, etc.) family. Miami: self-published.
  4. ↑ Knittle, Walter Allen (1937). Early Eighteenth Century Palatine Emigration: A British Government Redemptioner Project to Manufacture Naval Stores. Philadelphia: Dorrance & Co.


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