Stark, Benjamin – Staunton, William
Stark, Benjamin
merchant, lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born June 26, 1820, in New Orleans, La.
In 1845 he settled in Oregon, and established commercial relations with the Sandwich Islands, and with California, then a Mexican province. In 1852 he was a member of the territorial legislature of Oregon, and in 1860 was a member of the state legislature of that state. He was a senator in congress from Oregon during parts of the years 1861 and 1862, in the thirty-seventh congress.
Stark, Caleb
lawyer, state legislator, author, was born Nov. 21, 1804, in , author, was born Nov. 21, 1804, in Dunbarton, N. H. He was a member of the New Hampshire legislature, and was the author of Reminiscences of the French War, containing Rogers's Expeditions with the New England Rangers, and an Account of the Life and Military Service of John Stark; Memoir and Official Correspondence of Gen. John Stark, with Notices of other Officers of the Revolution; and a History of Dunbarton, N. H., from the Grant the Grant by Mason's Assigns in 1751 to He died Feb. 1, 1864, in Dunbarton, N. H.
Stark, Charles B
lawyer, author, son of Hon. Joseph C. Stark of Tennessee. of Hon.
Joseph C. Stark of Tennessee.
He is a successful lawyer of St. Louis, Mo., and the author of Stark's Missouri Digest in three volumes.
Stark, Henry M
statistician, was born April 14, 1845, in Flanders, N. J.
He received a thorough education in the public schools; and has principally been engaged in railroad positions. During 1889-91 he was commissioner of labor and industrial statistics of the state of Wisconsin. He has contributed extensively to the periodical press; and takes an active part in the public affairs of South Superior, Wis.
Stark, John
soldier, was born Aug. 28, 1728, in Londonderry, N. H. He was , 1728, in Londonderry, N. H. He was a brigadier -general, and is a conspicuous figure in American history, by his victory over the British at Bennington, Aug. 16, 1777 , and by his words before going into battle : There are the red-coats; we must beat them to-day, or Molly Stark is a widow!
He died May 8, 1832, in Manchester, N. H.
Stark, Joseph Carter
state senator, jurist, was born Dec. 29, 1817, in , jurist , was born Dec. 29, 1817, in Sumner county, Tenn. He was a Tennessee state senator, and judge of the tenth judicial circuit court of Tennessee.
He died March 6, 1890.
Stark, William
lawyer, poet, was born about 1820 in Manchester, N. H. He about 1820 in Manchester, N. H. He devoted himself to literary pursuits and to the care of a large collection of rare birds and animals. His park in Manchester, N. H., which was open to the public, was widely known.
He wrote several poems, and frequently lectured.
He died Oct. 29, 1873, in Somerville, Mass.
Stark, William Ledyard
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born July 29, , congressman, was born July 29, 1853, in Mystic , Conn. He was commissioned major and judge-advocate-general of the Nebraska national guard, and was nominated for congress by the populists and afterwards by the democrats, and elected to the fifty-fifth congress.
Starkey, Thomas Alfred
bishop of Newark, N. J., was born in 1824 in Newark , N. J., was born in 1824 in Philadelphia , Pa. He was elected bishop of northern New Jersey in 1879, and was consecrated on Jan. 8, 1880. The name of his diocese was changed to Newark in 1886 , and about the same time the bishop removed his residence to East Orange.
Starkweather, Amelia Miner- Va
educator, poet, was born in Starkville, N. Y. She received her education at the Cary collegiate seminary of Oakfield, N. Y. She has principally been engaged in educational work; for four years was traveling financial agent for the Orphans' home of Randolph, N. Y. She entered the Deaconess home at Buffalo, and six months later went as superintendent of the Deaconess home of Brooklyn, N. Y. For three years she was president of the Woman's Missionary society; has lectured extensively, and given numerous public readings . She has written both prose and verse for the periodical press, and many of her poems have been given a place in standard works.
Starkweather, David A
lawyer, congressman, was born in Connecticut.
He was elected a representative in congress from Ohio from 1839 to 1841, and again from 1845 to 1847. He was a presidential elector in 1848, and was minister to Chili from to Chili from 1854 to 1857.
Starkweather, George A
congressman, was born in Connecticut. He , was born in Connecticut. He was a representative in congress from New York from New York from 1847 to 1849.
Starkweather, George B
clergyman, inventor, translator, author. He , inventor, translator, author. He has been a missionary for twenty years; has been a translator in five different languages , and is the author of half a dozen books.
Starkweather, Henry How- Ard
lawyer, state legislator, congress- , lawyer , state legislator, congressman, was born April 29, 1826, in Preston, Conn. He served in the Connecticut state legislature, and in 1861 was appointed postmaster of Norwich. In 1867 he was elected a representative from Connecticut to the fortieth congress, and was reelected to the forty-first, forty-second, forty-third and forty-fourth congresses as a republican . He died Jan. 28, 1876, in Washington, Washington, D. C.
Starkweather, John Converse
soldier, congressman, was born May 11, 1830, in Cooperstown, N. Y. He was a colonel in the New York twelfth artillery.
He served as a member of congress during 1847-49 . He died Nov. 15, 1890, in Washington Washington, D. C.
Starkweather, John L
lawyer, was born Oct. 4, 1844, in Romeo, Mich. He born Oct. 4, 1844, in Romeo, Mich. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools of his native city; attended Eastman's Business college of Poughkeepsie, N. Y.; and the law department of the university of Michigan.
He commenced life as a school teacher, and all his life has been prominently identified with temperance movements and societies.
He has attained success as an able lawyer, his specialties being patents and pensions. Since 1891 he has been a prominent Forester, and is a member of various other fraternal orders in his native city.
Starkweather, Perry
soldier, manufacturer, was born Nov. 20, 1844, in Oakland county, Mich. During the war he served in the union army for over four years in company I, ninth regiment, Michigan volunteer infantry, and is prominent in the affairs of the Grand Army of the Republic of Minneapolis, Minn., where he is a successful is a successful manufacturer of knit goods.
Starr, Charles Richard
lawyer, jurist, was born May 15, 1824, in Nova , was born May 15, 1824, in Nova Scotia.
He moved to Illinois in 1842, and was admitted to the bar in 1849. For four years he was county judge, and for the past sixteen years has been judge of the circuit court.
Starr, Eliza Allen
lecturer, author, was born Aug. 29, 1824, in Deer- , was born Aug. 29, 1824, in Deerfield, Mass. She is an art lecturer in Chicago, and the author of Patron Saints; Pilgrims and Shrines; and Songs of a Lifetime.
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Starr, Frederic Ratchford
farmer, author, was born June 18, 1821, in Nova Scotia. He is a noted dairy farmer of Litchfield, Conn., and the author of Didley Dumps, the Newsboy; May I Not? What Can I Do? Farm Echoes; and From Shore to Shore.
Starr, John F
congressman, was born in 1818 in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1863 in 1818 in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1863 he was elected a representative from New Jersey to the thirty-eighth congress, and was reelected to the thirty-ninth congress.
Starr, Moses Allen
physician, author, was born in 1854 in New York. He , was born in 1854 in New York. He is a physician of New York city, prominent as a neurologist, and the author of Familiar Forms of Nervous Diseases; Lectures on Insanity; and Brain Surgery.
He also is a constant contributor to medical literature.
Starr, William Gabriel
clergyman, college president, was born Sept. , college president, was born Sept. 26, 1840 , in Rappahannock county, Va.
He entered the ministry in 1860, and has since filled the leading stations in the Virginia annual conference of the methodist episcopal church south. For five years he was president of the Wesleyan Female college of Murfreesboro, N. C.
Starrs, William
clergyman, was appointed rector of St. Patrick's cathedral born in 1807, in Ireland. In 1853 he was In 1853 he was and vicar-general of the archdiocese of New York, and in 1864 he was administrabishop was appointed. He died Feb. 6, tor of the diocese until the succeeding 1873, in New York city.
Start, Henry R
soldier, lawyer, 1845, in Bakersfield, Vt. He was educated jurist, state senator, was born Dec. 28, born Dec. 28, at the Bakersfield and Barre academy.
During the civil war he was a member of company A, third regiment Vermont volunteer infantry.
He is one of the foremost lawyers of New England at Bakersfield; has held the office of state's attorney; was state senator in 1880, and was a representative in the Vermont state legislature in 1890, and speaker of the house. In 1880 he was a presidential elector, and in 1890 was elected a juuge of the supreme court.
Stauffer, Francis Henry
author, was born in 1832 in Pennsylvania. born in 1832 in Pennsylvania.
He is a sensational novelist of Philadelphia , long a contributor to the Saturday Night.
Among his serials published in that paper paper are Ruth Brandon; Lucy Darrel; the Dauntless. thor, was born in 1803 in England. He
Staunton, William
clergyman, au- , clergyman, auwas an episcopal clergyman of New York city who published an Ecclesiastical Dictionary , and wrote much on musical topics. He died Sept. 20, 1889.