The Starbuck Families of Randolph County, Indiana

EDWARD STARBUCK, SR.

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Elward Slarbuck, Sr., Wayne County, Ind.. was the son of William Slarbuck, who was born on Nantucket Island, 1747, and moved to North Carolina, 1771; marrying soon afterward, Jane 'taylor, of Virginia, a member of the Stuarts, once heirs to the English and Scotch crowns; he raised eleven children, nine girls. After the girls were all married, a lady visitor asked him, " How many sons-in-law have you?" "But nine," said he. "Anybody that would buit at that, ought to have his horns knocked off," reported she.

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It will be seen from the statement just given, that the " Starbuck family " have been and still are truly a " power in the land." Active, frugal, thriving, prolific, intelligent, sober-minded, devout, they have long been and they continue to be a fountain of life and light to the region and the world. Few families can be found so numerous and so long-lived. In 1862, the entire family of eighteen children, the father and the step-mother, were alive— the oldest child sixty-five, the youngest, twenty-three. Their united ages were then 957 years, an average of forty-six years. And in 1880, the ages of the thirteen living children made 778 years, averaging about si sty years— the oldest, eighty-three; the youngest forty-two.

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(including eggs, butter and poultry; — at first, J. Starbuck & Co., but for ten years, alone. The business was extensive and prosperous. It is really wonderful how great the egg, butter and poultry business has come of late years to be. Some claim the trade to be greater than the pork trade or the wheat trade. At any rate it has grown to be immense. And it is another curious fact, how so small a town as Union City should be able to boast two among the largest and most important establishments of the kind in the United States. Mr. Starbuck employs from eight to sixteen hands. He is a Methodist and a Republican; was for several years Superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal Sundoy School in Union Ciiy, and is in all respects a valuable oiliien, an active Christian and a reliable man, a worthy son of an excellent, estimable and deeply lamented sire. Mr. S., in the spring of 1882, sold out his packing establishment, and after he engaged in handling coal for while, in September, 1882, he became a member of a company for manufacturing and handling a new the free escape of heat during warm weather from stoves used for cooking, etc.

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WALTER R. STARBUCK, farmer, P. O. Cerro Gordo, was born in Guilford County, N. C, May 19, 1812, and is a son of John and Beulah (Garrett) Starbikok, the former a native of Massachusetts, and the latter of North Carolina. The elder Starbuok was a tanner by trade, and also worked in winter seasons at saddle and harness making. They resided on a farm, and our subject has done nothing else save farming and raising stock. They came to this county in March, 1881, where he has since resided. He was married, in 183B, to Miss Sarah Fisher, of Wayne County. They have had ten children, of whom but three are living, viz.: Aladelphia, Malinda and Zerah C. Two sons, Christopher C. and Alexander S., were soldiers in the late war. Christopher was killed at his post in the battle of Gettysburg, and Alexander died at Indianapolis, on his way home, after being discharged. Mr. Starbuck is a member of the Wesleyan Methodist Church.

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JOHN WESLEY STARBUCK.

Alany of the choice farms of Randolph county were made wholly by the owners thereof, not a cent having been inherited. It is also true that many of the best farms were almost wholly inherited from the parents of the present holders. It would seem at first glance that the latter owners were the ones to be congratulated, but this is not always the case, for very often in their youth they did not receive the proper training as to thrift and industry that would enable them to save and manage their large inheritance. On the contrary it may be set down as an unqualified truth that the man who by hard knocks made all his property, beginning as a poor boy, learned at the same time how to take care of it. To know how to save money, as well as to know how to make it, is of the greatest importance, in the rearing of a boy. Such training was received by John Wesley Starbuck, farmer, of Washington township. He was thrown on his own resources when of tender age and has had to "hoe his own row" through life, but he has succeeded nicely.

Mr. Starbuck was born in White River township, this county, April 2, 1855. He is a son of Cyrus and Elizabeth (Jones) Starbuck. The father was born in South Carolina, March 16, 1807. The mother was a daughter of Alichael and Xancy Jones and was born near Winchester, Indiana, where she was reared. The father left the sunny South when a young man and located in Randolph county, this state, and here he met and married our subject's mother and they established their home on a farm in White River township.

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