AMOS M. STRODE, one of the heavy operators in mining property in the Coeur d'Alene district, is also, instructor, owner and manager of the water works, and was builder and owner of the electric light plant, in Mullan. He was born in Edmonson county, Kentucky, on March 17, 1849, the son of McClung and Sabrina (Shackelford) Strode, natives of Kentucky and now deceased. The Mayflower bore to the new world two brothers. James and John Strode, who later settled in the James river valley in Virginia, and their descendants were prominent Americans and patriots in the Revolution and it is asserted that one of the family fired the first shot at the British at Lexington.
Amos Strode, grandfather of our subject, settled in Kentucky and this branch of the family was prominent and influential. The father of our subject died in Warren county, Kentucky, on September 7, 1892. The mother of our subject came from German parentage and a prominent family, the Shackelfords being leading members of the bar and prominent judges in many decades. Our subject was educated and reared in Kentucky. When twenty-one he went to Kansas and farmed and bought and sold land, being also prominent politically. He traveled for a few years and settled to operating a coal mine in Missouri. Later he took a claim adjoining Grand Junction, Colorado, and sold it for eight thousand dollars. Then he took up mining near Ouray, operated a sawmill, handled a real estate business, and operated the largest placer mine in that section. He was at Aspen, Glenwood and other places. In 1888 Mr. Strode entered the Coeur d'Alene country and had sixty cents capital. He worked in a mill for a time, then launched into mining, and in 1890 he came to Mullan and erected a seventeen thousand dollar water plant and electric works costing nine thousand dollars. In addition to these enterprises Mr. Strode has done much real estate and mining business and is now promoting and operating several properties.
He located and incorporated the Reindeer group and is president of the company. He is also president of the Stevens Peak Copper Mining Company and president and manager of the Stewart Mining Company. He owns the claims covering the mineral zone between the Morning and the Hunter mines. He also has some valuable claims west of Mullan, known as the mineral farm. Mr. Strode has two brothers and four sisters, Milburn J., William H., Nancy B. Philips, Mag, Mrs. Jennie Schroeder and Mrs. Clara Vernon.
On January 6, 1903, at Denver, Colorado, Mr. Strode married Miss Alicia F. Jeffrey, whose parents are deceased. The father was an officer in the British army and was a native of England. The mother was from a prominent family, named Harvey. Mrs. Strode was born in Hauts, Nova Scotia. She graduated from Mt. Allison college at Sackville, New Brunswick, then graduated from the medical department of the Northwestern University at Chicago, and then was appointed medical director of the St. Marks hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Two years later she resigned to accept the superintendency of the St. Lukes in Denver, Colorado, and after three years of successful work there took charge of the Mt. Tabor Sanitarium in Portland, Oregon. After this long service Mrs. Strode returned to private life. She is a member of the Colorado State Medical Society. She has one brother, Charles N. F. Jeffrey, an Episcopal clergyman in Winnipeg. Mr. Strode is a member of the A. F. & A. M. and is also a Scottish Rite Mason. He is a Democrat, but not partisan. Mrs. Strode is a member of the Episcopal church.
