Albert C. Strong was born around 1847 in Michigan to George Strong and Emily Maxfield. His father was a speculator who owned $600 of real estate in 1860. The family moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, around 1850. He enlisted in the Union army on August 10, 1863, and mustered in as a private in Battery B of the 1^st Wisconsin Heavy Artillery. The men spent the next two years stationed in Tennessee and Kentucky, and Strong mustered out on August 30, 1865.

 

He returned to Milwaukee after the war, and he married Josephine E. Mullen there on November 18, 1865. They had at least two children: Ida, born around 1867; and Charles, born around 1870. They lived in Milwaukee, and Strong worked as a painter. By 1870, they owned $100 of personal property. He got divorced sometime in the 1870s, and he married a woman named Margaret soon afterward.

 

By 1880, they were living in his father’s household in Milwaukee, and he was working as a paper hanger. He moved to Chicago, Illinois, in the early 1880s, and he and Margaret got divorced around the same time. He married Jennie Merryfield in Chicago on September 27, 1883. They got divorced in November 1890.  As the Chicago Tribune reported, “Mrs. Albert C. Strong said her husband had been divorced three times before he married her and was a drunkard. It was on the latter charge that she desired a divorce.” He married Lizzie M. Casanova on April 18, 1891. He died in Chicago on July 3, 1905.

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