Richard H. Starke and Ida C. Pfeil

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Husband Richard H. Starke ¹

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           Born: 1 Jan 1868 1
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         Father: Frederick Starke (Abt 1830-1886) 1 2
         Mother: Mina Helmbold (Abt 1834-Aft 1904) 1 2

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       Marriage: 21 Sep 1892 3

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Wife Ida C. Pfeil ³

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Children

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1 M Wilbur A. Starke ³

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General Notes: Husband - Richard H. Starke

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He was reared and educated in Butler County, Pennsylvania, and at fifteen began to learn the harness-makers' trade. He spent five years at his trade in Tarentum, then engaged in the harness business in Saxonburg two years, and in 1891 returned to Tarentum and formed a partnership with his brother, E. C. Starke. This partnership being dissolved in 1895, he thereafter engaged in the business for himself, and was quite successful. In politics he was a republican, and served in the council three years. He was a member of Pollock lodge, No. 502, F. and A. M.; Lodge No. 240, Knights of Pythias, and of Tarentum lodge, No. 587, I. O. O. F. He and his wife were members of the Cumberland Presbyterian church.

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General Notes: Wife - Ida C. Pfeil

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from Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA

1 Editor, Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Vol. II (Madison, WI: Northwestern Historical Assosciation, 1904), Pg 118.

2 Editor, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 886.

3 Editor, Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Vol. II (Madison, WI: Northwestern Historical Assosciation, 1904), Pg 119.