Summit County OhArchives Biographies.....Starr, John J. 1867 - 
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Author: editor and compiler William B. Doyle

JOHN STARR, secretary of the Robinson Clay Product Company, one of Akron's most 
important industries, is a native of this city, born here in 1867, and is a son 
of Jonathan Starr and a grandson of Jonathan Starr. The grandfather of Mr. 
Starr was a native of Connecticut. He came to Summit County in 1813, became a 
man of substance and prominence and was a member of the first board of Summit 
County commissioners. He owned large bodies of land in Copley Township, and 
there he reared his family, his son Jonathan being born there in 1831. John J. 
Starr was reared and educated at Akron. When fifteen years of age he entered 
the employ of the E. H. Merrill Pottery Company and he has worked himself 
steadily upward through the grades of promotion until he has become secretary 
of one of the largest pottery concerns in the United States. In 1892 Mr. Starr 
was married to Adelaide Akers, who is a daughter of Alfred Akers of Akron, and 
they have four children, namely: Helen, Anna, Miriam and Harriett. Mr. Starr is 
a 32nd degree Mason and belongs to the Blue Lodge Chapter, Council and 
Commandery at Akron and to Lake Erie Consistory of Cleveland.

Additional Comments:
Centennial History of Summit County Ohio and Representative Citizens edited and 
compiled by William B. Doyle. Chicago: Biographical Pub. Co., 1908

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