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From History of Randolph County, Indiana with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers : to which are appended maps of its several townships (1882)
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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.
As printed in History of Randolph County, Indiana with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers : to which are appended maps of its several townships (1882). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
The printed record stops around 1882. We trace your line from there down to you, with every source cited.