Henry Howard Starkweather
Henry Howard Starkweather was born on April 29, 1826, in Preston, Connecticut, to John and Lydia Starkweather. His father was a teamster and a veteran of the War of 1812. In 1849, he served as vice president of a Young Men’s Lyceum in Norwich, Connecticut. He married a woman named Maria, and they had at least four children: Henry, born around 1857; Lydia, born around 1859; Sarah, born around 1863; and Henry, born around 1869. He worked as a lawyer, and by 1860, he owned $2,000 of personal property.
He supported the Republican Party, and he served in the state legislature in 1856. He served as a delegate to the 1860 Republican National Convention, where he helped nominate Abraham Lincoln for president. Lincoln appointed him postmaster of Norwich in 1861, and President Andrew Johnson reappointed him four years later. He was elected to Congress in 1867, and he served for the next nine years. He died in Washington, D.C., on January 28, 1876.
Image: Henry H. Starkweather (courtesy Wikicommons)
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| (4222) | Starkweather, Henry Howard | 1826-04-29 | 1876-01-28 |
- Conflict Side: Union
- Role: Civilian
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- Gender: Male
- Race: White
Documents - Records: 1
- (11700) [writer] ~ Henry H. Starkweather to William H. Tubbs, 30 January 1871
Places - Records: 2
Groups - Records: 1
- (3) [politician] ~ Republican Party
SOURCES
1850, 1860, and 1870 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Connecticut Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934, available from Ancestry.com; American Mechanic and Home Journal (Norwich, CT), 16 November 1849; National Republican (Washington, D.C., 29 January 1876); “Henry H. Starkweather,” Wikipedia profile, available from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_H._Starkweather
