Biography of 	STARKEY, Charles T., Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by 	Mike Miller April 1998

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Louisiana:  Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions,
and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), p. 415.  Edited by
Alcée Fortier, Lit.D.  Published in 1914, by Century Historical Association.

Starkey, Charles T., lawyer, was born in New Orleans, Dec. 10, 1886, and is
a son of Theodore and Julia (Cain) Starkey.  His parents were born in New
Orleans, and his paternal grandfather, Charles Starkey, was born in
Lewiston, Me., and came of an old family of New England.  Charles T.
Starkey was reared in New Orleans, and in the public schools received his
preliminary education.  At the age of 11 years he left school and became a
messenger boy for the Western Union Telegraph Co., for which corporation he
later became bookkeeper, and still later an operator, and finally manager
of one of the company's branch offices in New Orleans, resigning the last
named position in 1905.  Mr. Starkey matriculated at the law department of
Tulane university Oct., 1905, and graduated in May, 1907.  He was licensed
to practice law Dec. 16, 1907.  He is also a notary public, and besides the
practice of law deals in real estate.  Mr. Starkey was married April 30,
1912, to Miss Stella Lathrop, daughter of Elias Lane Lathrop, and Marie
Louise (Piagget) Lathrop.  Mr. Lathrop is a prominent sugar planter of
Plaquemines parish.  Mr. Starkey has forged his own way to success in his
profession and business; educated himself and made his own way from early
youth, and is deserving of much credit for achieving so well under the
circumstances against which he has battled.