Starin, John H
congressman, was born Aug. 27, 1827, in Sammonsville, N. Y.
He received an academic education; commenced the study of medicine in 1842, and established and conducted the drug and medicine business at Fultonville from 1845 to 1858.
From 1848 to 1852 he was postmaster at Fultonville, and from 1856 to the present time has been largely engaged in the transportation business through the city, river and harbor and waters of Long Island Sound, and its accessories of vessel building. He is at present a director of the North River bank, New York city, and the Mohawk River National bank, and is greatly and personally interested in agriculture and stocking. He was elected to the fortyfifth congress, and was re-elected to the forty-sixth congress as a republican.