Solano-Sacramento County CA Archives Biographies.....Starr, A. W. 1834 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

CAPTAIN A. W. STARR, Superintendent of the Star Mills at South Vallejo, has been
a resident of the Golden State since 1853, and has lived in Vallejo for the past
nineteen years, and in charge of the mills for the past ten years. He was born
in Huron County, Ohio, in 1834, his parents being Orange and _____ Starr,
natives of New York State, who were among the early settlers of Ohio. At the age
of fourteen years he entered business life as a clerk in a country store in
Plymouth, Ohio, and continued there until he was eighteen years old; then he
came to California, by way of Panama, arriving in San Francisco in February,
1853. Proceeding at once to the mining district, he kept a store there ten
months, and then was clerk in a store in Sacramento until 1861. In September,
1861, he assisted in raising a company of cavalry, was appointed Second
Lieutenant and served during the war in different portions of the State, part of
the time in Northern California against the Indians. His was Company F, Second
Regiment of California Volunteer Cavalry. In the spring of 1853 he was promoted
to First Lieutenant and a few months afterward Captain. June 6, 1866, he was
mustered out, in command of his company; In February, 1867, he entered the
regular army as Second Lieutenant, attached to the Eighth United States Cavalry,
and remained in service until 1871, meanwhile, in 1868, being promoted First
Lieutenant, and in December, 1869, to the Captaincy, and during this period of
service he was in Nevada and New Mexico. Becoming tired of the inactivity of the
military service, he took charge of the mills at Vallejo, and has since remained
as their manager. Their capacity is 2,000 barrels per day, 250 tons of wheat,
1,300 bags of bran, 500 bags of middlings. It has two engines: one, of 600
horse-power, was manufactured by the Union Iron Works in San Francisco and
called the O'Neil engine, and the other is a 300-horse-power Corliss engine.
Coal from the Pittsburg mine in Mt. Diablo is used. The mills are six stories
high, each floor fully occupied. The market is principally in Great Britain and
Europe, the main office in Liverpool. This mill has been running since 1869.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.


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