REV. ERNEST J. W. STARCK.
One of the well-known and popular ministers now holding a pastorate in Audubon county, Iowa, is Rev. Ernest J. W. Starck, pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Trinity church, and also pastor of St. John's church of Audubon. Born on September 18, 1862, in West Prussia, Germany, the son of E. G. and Johanna Charlotte (Wendt) Starck, he was brought to this country by his parents two years after his birth, in 1864. Both of his parents were natives of Germany: the former died in November, 1907, and the latter died in May, 1903. E. G. Starck and wife reared a family of eight children, four sons and four daughters. It is a remarkable fact that three sons are all ministers in the German Evangelical Lutheran church. Rev. Ernest J. W. Starck is the eldest child born to his parents. Rev. Herman O. Starck is pastor of a church at Ada, Norman county, Minnesota. Rev. Alwin C. Starck is pastor of a church at LaSalle, New York. Clara and Jennie Strack are at present residents of Chicago, Illinois.
Educated in parochial, public and private schools, and a graduate of the theological seminary at Springfield, Illinois, with the class of 1887, Ernest J. W. Starck has been engaged in the ministry during practically his entire life. He is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other states, also of the district of Iowa.
Ernest J. W. Starck was married on August 14, 1895, at St Paul, Minnesota, to Elizabeth Wolf, the daughter of George and Susanna (Sapp) Wolf. Mrs. Starck was born January 16, 1869, in Germany, and is one of a family of three children, she being the eldest. The other two children, Mrs. Margaretha Weiss and Mrs. Wilhelmina Kluge, are still living in Germany.
Rev. Ernest J. W. Starck and wife are the parents of nine children, E. G. F., Adolph H., Walter R. G., Arthur Marc F., Herbert Bernhardt I., Frederick William H. A., Else Elizabeth, Edward and Frieda Susarma Johanna.
During his pastorate of Trinity church of Lincoln township and St. John's church at Audubon, Rev. Starck has had very much to do with the growth of these congregations and the prosperity of the two churches. He is known to be an eloquent and persuasive pulpit orator, a sympathetic and efficient pastor and is naturally popular, not only with his congregation, but with all the people of the community to which he ministers A very worthy citizen, he is entitled to representation in this volume as one of the leading ministers of Audubon county.
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Transcribed from History of Audubon County, Iowa Its People, Industries and Institutions With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, by H. F. Andrews, editor, Indianapolis: B. F. Bowen & Company, 1915, pp. 652-653.
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