Named in 1947 for local realtor/developer Daniel Edward Strub (1882-1958). Dan E. Strub, as he was known, was born and raised in Walnut, IL, the son of European immigrants. (Records vary as to whether they were French or German.) He got into the restaurant business as a young man, which took him to Marshalltown, IA and then to Sioux Falls, SD, where he married Mabel Gilbert (1878-1975) in 1909 and launched a hotel called Chicago House. The childless couple spent five years in Manitoba after Strub declared bankruptcy, but returned to Sioux Falls in 1918. After another five years, however, they decamped for Whittier, where Strub got into real estate. By all accounts his was a successful enterprise, but Strub’s life came to a tragic end when he hanged himself, aged 75, in his Bacon Road garage. He was likely despondent over ill health.
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