Della Lindley Straup
Della Lindley Straup (November 27, 1866 – September 8, 1947) was an American educator and clubwoman.[1]
Early life
[edit]Adele "Della" Lindley was born November 27, 1866, near South Bend, Indiana, the daughter of Ashbury Lindley and Mary Elizabeth Huston.[1][2] She married Daniel Newton Straup in April 1889 in Valparaiso, Indiana.[1]
Career
[edit]Straup taught school in Indiana and Utah.[2] By 1890, she was assistant principal of a high school in Salt Lake City's fourteenth ward.[3] She was the first president of her district's Federation of Women's Clubs, presided over the district's Women's Republican Club for two years, led the Ladies Literary Club for one year, and was a charter member of the Reviewers Club.[1][2]
Personal life
[edit]The Straups moved to Salt Lake City, Utah in 1890 and had three daughters: Cordelia, Rosalind, and Danella.[2] (He served as a justice for the Utah State Supreme Court from 1905 until 1917 and from 1924 through 1934.)[4]
Della Lindley Straup died on September 15, 1947, and is buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery (Salt Lake City), with Judge Straup, who died in 1945.[1]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e "Mrs. Daniel N. Straup". The Salt Lake Tribune. 9 September 1947. p. 16. Retrieved 12 March 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c d Binheim, Max; Elvin, Charles A (1928). Women of the West; a series of biographical sketches of living eminent women in the eleven western states of the United States of America. p. 179. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ "Assignments of Teachers". The Salt Lake Tribune. 12 September 1890. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Prominent V.U. Law Graduate Is Dead in Utah". The Vidette-Messenger. Valparaiso, Indiana. 16 November 1945. p. 1. Retrieved 13 March 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
