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1849 - 1933 (84 years)| Name | John Calvin STRAHORN | |
| Birth | 14 Mar 1849 | Haines Twp, Centre, Pennsylvania  |
| Gender | Male | |
| Death | 27 Nov 1933 | Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California |
| Burial | Forest Lawn Cemetery, Glendale, Los Angeles, California, Great Mausoleum, Dahlia Terrace, Sanctuary of Faith #3407 |
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| Person ID | I85647 | Zentmeyer Main Tree |
| Last Modified | 22 May 2026 | |
| Father | Thomas Foster STRAHORN, b. Abt 1824, West Buffalo, Union, Pennsylvania d. 18 May 1886, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California (Age ~ 62 years) | |
| Mother | Rebecca EMMERT, b. 1826, Bethel, Lebanon, Pennsylvania (year per headstone) d. 1863, Harris, Centre, Pennsylvania - Tuberculosis (year per headstone) (Age 37 years) | |
| Marriage | Abt 1848 | Centre, Pennsylvania |
| Family ID | F23140 | Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family | Sarah Elizabeth WOOD, b. 14 Mar 1849, Lyme, Grafton, New Hampshire d. 24 Oct 1940, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California (Age 91 years) | |||||||||
| Marriage | 10 Jun 1875 | Milton, either Rock or Buffalo, Wisconsin [1] |
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| Photos |  | John Calvin and Sarah Wood Strahorn On the porch of their home at 211 N. Ave 51, Highland Park, California, likely in the late 1920s. | ||||||||
| Family ID | F23134 | Group Sheet | Family Chart | ||||||||
| Last Modified | 22 May 2026 | |||||||||
| Photos |  | J.C. Strahorn From the Zentmyer Collection. Photo taken shortly after his marriage to Sarah Elizabeth Wood |
 | John Calvin Strahorn From the Zentmyer Collection. | |
 | 1871 Letter from John & Mollie Emmert to their 22-year-old grandson John Calvin Strahorn From the Zentmyer Collection. John Emmert died later that same year, in 1871. From the Zentmyer Collection, | |
 | Letter of Recommendation for J.C. Strahorn, who resigned for failing health. From the Zentmyer Collection. John soon obtained a job with the Union Pacific Railroad in North Platte, Nebraska, and lived another fifty-three years. | |
 | Union Pacific Employees Magazine, Feb 1886 Placing the J.C. Strahorn family in Sterling Colorado, supporting Mary Strahorn's birth there the year before. | |
 | Union Pacific #437 locomotive in Grand Island, Nebraska This Union Pacific Consolidaton 2-8-0 was built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in the year 1900. (2-8-0 refers to 2 leading wheels, 8 drive wheels, and 0 trailing wheels) It is on display at the Stuhr Museum in Grand Island, Nebraska, which we visited in May of 2026. These workhorses of the early 20th century were the backbone of freight service across the Great Plains. As they were retired, many were donated to towns across Nebraska, including Grand Island, Fairbury, Sidney, Kearney, Lexington, and North Platte. The engineer would sit on the right, and the fireman on the left. The likelihood that John Calvin Strahorn operated this exact locomotive on multiple occasions during the over two decades he and Sarah lived in North Platte is inescapable, because crews operating locomotives based in North Platte would typically travel west to Sidney or east to Grand Island, where their locomotives would be serviced at a roundhouse and refilled with coal and water. The locomotives would then pull a train back to North Platte, with the same or another crew. | |
 | J.C. Strahorn checking in with the timekeeper. From the Zentmyer Collection. Every division point had a master clock, which was updated every 24 hours by a telegraph signal from the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington D.C. The timekeeper would check the watches of every engineer on every train that passed through the division. | |
 | The end of John Calvin Strahorn's last run in North Platte. From the Zentmyer Collection. That is what is written on the back of this photo. This locomotive is a Baldwin Consolidation 2-8-0, a type which probably accounted for the vast majority of John's trips to and from North Platte. | |
 | Locomotive Engineers Journal Jan 1915 Detailing a brief chronology of J.C. Strahorn's employment. | |
 | The Strahorn house in North Platte, Nebraska From the Zentmyer Collection. The house was at 109 W. Second St. The block was redeveloped into retail stores in 1928. From the Zentmyer Collecton. Looks cold. | |
 | 1903 Sanborn Map from North Platte These Sanborn fire insurance maps are invaluable tools for seeing changes to real estate over time. | |
 | Zentmyers and Strahorns on the porch, 1920 From the Zentmyer Collection. Likely at the Strahorn's house at 521 W. 27th Street, Los Angeles. From left - John Zentmyer, his mother Mary, Sarah and John Calvin Strahorn, George Zentmyer, and John's brother George Jr. This image was colorized from black and white photo using the AI program DeOldify. A pretty good result. | |
 | Brothers John C. and Robert E. Strahorn, Christmas 1924 From the Zentmyer Collection. The location is the vacant lot at 5929 Terrace Drive, Highland Park where John's daughter Mary and her husband George Zentmyer would build a new house in 1925, two doors west the house in the background of the image, which still exists at 6007 Terrace Drive. In fact, the brothers could be sitting on the edge of a foundation excavation. | |
 | John and Sarah Strahorn's house at 211 N. Ave 51, Highland Park. They lived here at least from 1925 until 1933. It was less than a mile from the home of their daughter Mary and her husband George Zentmyer. The house still exists, at the same address, apparently unmodified. | |
 | Death Notice In the Los Angeles Times, dated 29 Nov 1933 | |
 | Grand Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale California Image courtesy Gary Zentmyer | |
 | Sarah and J.C. Strahorn's Crypt Located in the Dahlia Terrace, Sanctuary of Faith, Forest Lawn, Glendale, California Image courtesy Gary Zentmyer | |
 | Close-up of crypt for John Calvin Strahorn Great Mausoleum, Dahlia Terrace, Sanctuary of Faith #3407 Image courtesy Gary Zentmyer |
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