James Carlton Starr

Brief Life History of James Carlton

When James Carlton Starr was born on 29 May 1910, in Fairfield, Jefferson, Iowa, United States, his father, James Peter Starr, was 40 and his mother, Chloe Fellows, was 38. He had at least 1 son and 2 daughters with Deloris Maxine Ferguson. He lived in Fairfield Township, Jefferson, Iowa, United States in 1940. He died in July 1981, in Fairfield, Jefferson, Iowa, United States, at the age of 71.

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Family Time Line

James Carlton Starr
1910–1981
Deloris Maxine Ferguson
1914–1984
Marcia Lou Starr
1939–
Phillip D Starr
1949–
Connie Sue Starr
1950–1998

Sources (14)

  • Cash* Starr in household of James O Starr, "United States Census, 1920"
  • James Carleton Starr, "Iowa, County Births, 1880-1935"
  • James Carleton Starr, "Iowa, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"

World Events (8)

1912 · The Girl Scouts

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1913 · The Completion of the Keokuk Dam

The Keokuk Dam was completed in 1913 and began to power the surrounding area. It was the largest single capacity powerhouse in the world at the time. After World War II, the powerhouse was modernized and all the units were converted in 2002. It remains the largest privately owned and operated dam on the Mississippi River.

1929

13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.

Name Meaning

English: from Middle English sterre ‘star’ (Old English steorra), used, like the Old Norse Stjarna, as a nickname, but also occasionally as a personal name. The word was also used in a transferred sense of a patch of white hair on the forehead of a horse, and so perhaps the nickname denoted someone with a streak of white hair. This surname has been established in Ireland since the 17th century.

English: in addition, the name may occasionally also have been topographic or habitational, referring to a house or inn distinguished by the sign of a star (see 2 above). Surnames derived from house and inn signs are rare in English.

Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Star 1 and 3.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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