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Starkweather, George B

clergyman, 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.

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