Editing Caleb Strong (section)

==Family, charity, and legacy==
In 1777 Strong married Sarah Hooker, the daughter of a local pastor and descendant of Thomas Hooker, founder and first governor of Connecticut. They had nine children, four of whom survived the couple.<ref name=Trumbull600/> Strong was active in his church and was a leading member of local missionary and Bible societies.<ref>Trumbull, p. 601.</ref> He was a founding member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] and a member of the [[Massachusetts Historical Society]].<ref>Bradford, p. 17.</ref> In 1813, Strong was elected a member of the [[American Antiquarian Society]].<ref>[http://www.americanantiquarian.org/memberlists American Antiquarian Society Members Directory]</ref>

{{libship honor|name=Caleb Strong|type=his}} The town of [[Strong, Maine]], incorporated in 1801, was named for Strong,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://strong.mainememory.net/page/3363/print.html|title=Strong, a Mussul Unsquit Village|publisher=Maine Memory/Maine Historical Society|access-date=December 27, 2012}}</ref> and [[Windham Township, Portage County, Ohio]] was originally named Strongsburg in his honor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.portagecountyhistoricalsociety.org/windham%20hist%20soc.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120206151709/http://www.portagecountyhistoricalsociety.org/windham%20hist%20soc.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 6, 2012|title=Windham Historical Society|publisher=Portage County Historical Society|access-date=November 30, 2012}}</ref> The Strongsburg land had been allocated to Strong as part of his ownership share in the [[Ohio Company of Associates|Ohio Company]] and had been sold by him and several minority partners in 1810.<ref>Brown and Norris, p. 567.</ref>