Juho Niiloson or Nilionpoika Strandén was born on 20 April 1881 in Muljula, Kitee, Eastern Finland, the son of Niilo Strandén and his wife Inka Musikka.
Juho Strandén worked as a farmer, he was unmarried when he boarded the Titanic at Southampton as a Third Class passenger (ticket no. STON/O 2. 3101288, £7 18s 6d). His destination was Duluth, Minnesota.
Juho had never been on the Atlantic Ocean before. His cabin was in the bow of the ship. He was woken by the impact of the iceberg, rushed up on the Forward Deck where he saw ice. Later he saw people with lifebelts and rushed down again. He woke his cabin-mate Juho Niskanen and they moved up to Boat Deck where they, according to them, assisted in loading a lifeboat on starboard side before entering the same boat. Some say it was lifeboat 9 but it could also have been lifeboat 15.
In New York he was quartered at St. Vincent Hospital.
His mother passed away on 20 December 1915. On 14 December 1925, Juho moved from Kitee to Pyhäselkä, near Joensuu in Finland. From 1928 Juho lived with his wife in Ruskeala, eastside of what is nowadays the border of Finland. The couple had no children.
He stayed there untill he died on Saturday 28th August 1943, aged 62 years.