Moses Starbird and E. G. Gilkey

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Husband Moses Starbird ¹

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           Born: 18 May 1829 - Freeman, Franklin Co, ME 1
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         Father: [Father] Starbird (      -      )
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       Marriage: 27 Aug 1855 - Freeman, Franklin Co, ME 1

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Wife E. G. Gilkey ¹

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           Born: 1 Jun 1835 - Freeman, Franklin Co, ME 1
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Children

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1 M Walter H. Starbird ²

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           Born: 13 Mar 1857 - Lewiston, Androscoggin Co, ME 2
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         Spouse: Ida Bliss (      -      ) 2

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2 F Addie Starbird ²

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         Spouse: Lawrence Colegrove (      -      ) 2

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3 M Arthur M. Starbird ²

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           Born: Abt 1872
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General Notes: Husband - Moses Starbird

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He was of English descent, and was the third child in a family of nine, six of whom were still living in 1884. He was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools. He commenced business as a builder in Lewistown, Maine, where he remained five or six years; subsequently he spent three years as a watchman in Lowell, Massachusetts; then engaged in farming in Freeman, Maine. Mr. Starbird came to Corry, Erie County, Pennsylvania, in 1865, where he ran a feed-mill in partnership with his brother, I. S. Starbird. In 1866, he built a saw mill, which he worked for two years, with a capacity of 5,000,000 shingles; subsequently sold this mill, and built the block corner of Washington and Center streets in 1870, buying adjoining property, and built a house on South street, expending in all $18,000, and realizing on same $27,000. He afterward sold this property, but bought it back in two years. During the year 1875, he engaged in the grocery business with M. Moffett; sold out to Burroughs & West. He was in the real estate business two years, and subsequently in the wholesale and retail buggy and wagon manufacturing business, the retail department conducted by C. G. Andrews. They did a large business, and handled upward of 3,000 jobs in their vicinity. In 1879, Mr. Starbird built a feed and grist mill, with L. True as partner, and did a large business, selling 300 car-loads of grain in three years. He bought out True in 1882, and formed a consolidated firm with L. Hammond and T. A. Allen, with a new mill built by them, having a capacity of 125 barrels of flour per day; he was successful in this also.

1 Editor, History of Erie County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1884), Pg 1001.

2 Editor, History of Erie County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1884), Pg 1002.