Starr, C. G.

STARR

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 8/1/2008 at 16:09:51

C. G. Starr

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.105, Grove Twp.)
C. G. Starr, farmer, P. O. Carson, born in Ohio in 1823, son of Josiah and Mary (Cannon) Starr; he, a farmer and shoemaker, born in Connecticut in 1786, died in Ohio in 1862; she, born in Massachusetts in 1788, died in Ohio in 1874. They were the parents of eight children. Subject received a common school education; began life as a farmer, also as a cooper, and was married in Ohio, in 1850, to Susan Williamson, born in Ohio in 1833, daughter of Palmer and Amy (Horton) Williamson, both born in New York; he in 1802, she in 1804. Mr. and Mrs. Starr have five children, viz., Ella, Warner, Palmer, Mabel and Lylburn. Subject's business has been farming, though he has been a cooper, a tanner and also been in the saltpeter business as well as a Justice of the Peace. He moved from Lake County, Ill., to this county in the spring of 1868, the trip having been made in a covered wagon and occupying three weeks. He moved onto his own land, having bought it two years previous for $3 per acre; the same land is now worth $35 per acre. Mr. Starr is a Republican.