San Francisco-Nevada County CA Archives Obituaries.....Starr, George William January 21, 1940
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Oakland Tribune, January 22 1940
"George W. Starr, Mine Chief, Dies.

George W. Starr, 77, former superintendent of the Empire mine at Grass Valley 
and first president of the Gold Mining Association of America, died last night 
in his apartment in San Francisco after a cerebral hemorrhage suffered a week 
ago.

Staff, a widely-known mining man, became associated with the fabulous gold-
producing mine, the Empire, in 1887, through his cousin, William B. Bourn, 
owner of the mine.  After six years in Grass Valley, Starr accompanied John 
Hays Hammond to South Africa on a mining venture, returning to Caliornia in 
1898, when he became superintendent of the Empire mine, a post he held until 
his retirement in 1934.

Starr was elected first president of the Gold Mining Association of America at 
its inaugural meeting in San Francisco in 1933.

Surviving are a widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Crocker Starr, and a daughter, Mrs. Frank 
Nilon [nee Dorothy Staff] of Palm Springs.  Funeral arrangements are not yet 
made." END

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Oakland Tribune (Oakland, California), January 22 1940 (Monday), Page 13, 
Column 8.

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