After successfully fighting off a hostile takeover attempt by Ronald S. Baron in 1986, Strawbridge & Clothier survived as an independent, locally-owned department store into the 1990s.
In both venues, he has had a long working relationship with stable owner, George W. Strawbridge, Jr. and in 2008 he conditioned Strawbridge's filly Forever Together to victory in the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf.
Along with Raguet, Peters, Biddle, and Hale, the other men, called associate founders, were Charles N. Bancker, Andrew Bayard, Samuel Breck, John McCrea, William Schlatter, John C. Stocker, John Strawbridge and Roberts Vaux.
The Strawbridge Shrine, in Carroll County, Maryland at the edge of New Windsor, is named after Robert Strawbridge and is dedicated to preserve the history of his ministry.
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At the first recorded Quarterly Conference in Joppa in December 1772, Bishop Asbury formally appointed Robert Strawbridge and Richard Owings to the Frederick County circuit.
George W. Strawbridge, Jr. (born 1937) American educator, historian, investor, sportsman, and philanthropist
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Robert Strawbridge (died 1781), Methodist preacher born in Drumsna, County Leitrim, Ireland .
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Dick Strawbridge (born 1959), British engineer and television presenter