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| Record Last Updated On:
9/23/2016 |
| Name: JAMES O STARKS |
| Death Date: DEC/1/1919 |
Interment Date:
DEC/3/1919 |
Birth Date: MAR/21/1841 |
| Age at Death: 78y8m10d |
Cause of Death:
PARALYZED BLADDER |
| Location at Death:
St. Joseph, Missouri |
| Physical Location at Death:
3322 Mitchell Avenue |
| Sex: M |
Nativity: AMERICAN |
Ethnicity: CAUCASIAN |
| Occupation:PRINCIPAL OF HYDE SCHOOL (RETIRED) |
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| Child of: Price Starks & Emerine Ellis |
| Spouse of: 1st Ida Belle Mark, 2nd Margaret R Hamilton |
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| Father of: John Price Starks |
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| Brief Biography: Bio from 'Portrait and biographical record of Buchanan and Clinton counties, Missouri ....' 1893 pgs 219-220 by Chapman bros, Chicago
J.O. STARKS, of St. Joseph, Buchanan
County, is the Secretary and Treasurer of the
St. Joseph Gas and Manufacturing Company.
This company, which has a capital stock of
1500,000, is one of the largest concerns in the city and gives employment to a large number of men. They manufacture coal gas, coke, coal tar, etc., and since May, 1890, our subject has been connected in his present capacity with the company.
The birth of Mr. Starks occurred March 21,
1842, in Scotland County, Mo. His father, Judge Price Starks, was born in Fayette County, Ky., and was the second settler in Scotland County, where he engaged in operating a farm. He was presiding Judge of the Court of Scotland County and there continued to live until 1850, when he
located in Platte County, where he continued to follow agricultural pursuits until his death, which occurred in August, 1884.
Our subject's mother, whose maiden name was Miss Emerine Ellis, was born in Kentucky, and died while living in Scotland County. She was the mother of ten children, our subject being the fifth.
Dr. W. F., the eldest of the family, a graduate of the St. Louis Medical College, was a surgeon of Gates' regiment, Confederate States Army, during the war.
J. O. Starks was given an ordinary common school education until about I860, when he went to Kentucky, entering the State University at Harrodsburg, where he completed the classical and literary course. In 1864 he went to the mountains of Montana overland, and after remaining there
one year returned to Platte County, where he engaged in teaching. He was elected School Commissioner of Platte County in 1883 and continued to train the young idea until 1885, when he was appointed clerk to the Superintendentof Construction of the Government Building at St. Joseph,
Mo. This position he held for five years, when he assumed his present duties.
Mr. Starks has been twice married, his first alliance having been formed in Kentucky with Miss Ida B. Mark, of Montgomery County. She died July 5, 1889. In November, 1892, in Saline County, Mo., he wedded Miss Maggie Hamilton, who is also a native of Kentucky. Mr. Starks is an Elder in the Christian Church and is Superintendent of the Sunday-school. In his political faith he sides with the Democracy, He is well known and justly esteemed in the business circles of St. Joseph as a man of correct principle and high moral worth. |
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Burial Number: 8808 |
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| Other Relatives in Plot: Ida Belle Mark Starks, John Price Starks, Margaret R Hamilton Starks |
| Lot Owner: J OSTARKS |
| Lot Location: E1/2 2 |
| Block Location: 22 |
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| Funeral Home: H O SIDENFADEN |
| Funeral Home City/State: St. Joseph, Missouri |
| Cost of Interment: $10.00 |
Date Paid: 12/31/19 |
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