was named by Congressman William T. Price for his friend, Louis Strum, of Eau Claire. Under the first Cleveland administration the hamlet was called Tilden, for Samuel J. Tilden, but in 1890 was changed to Strum.

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[Source: Curtiss-Wedge. History of Trempealeau County, p. 273.]