BIO:  F. G. STARK, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Hanover Borough and Penn Township, Pg 69

F. G. STARK was born in Prussia in 1835; is a son of Frederick L. and Anna E. 
(Kraemer) Stark, and the eldest in a family of four children.  The father of Mr. 
Stark was born in the town of Berleburg, in the district of Westphalia, and his 
mother is a native of the same town.  Our subject’s paternal grandfather was 
also a native of Germany, but came to America and here died.  The father of Mr. 
Stark also came to America, and settled in Hanover.  When our subject was about 
one year old, he was brought to America by his mother, who was accompanied by 
her brother, Henry Kraemer, her husband having come some months previous.  Mr. 
Stark was educated at the public schools of Hanover.  At a very early age he 
began learning the jeweler’s trade under his father.  In 1857 he went to 
Littlestown, Adams Co., Penn., and engaged in the jewelry business, which he 
continued for some time, and then came to Hanover, and here continued the 
business for a few months, then sold out and went to Europe in 1859, and for 
some years worked in many of the principal cities in Germany and Switzerland.  
Returning to America in 1862, he again began the jewelry business in Hanover.  
He makes a specialty of fine watches, clocks, jewelry and spectacles, etc.  The 
marriage of Mr. Stark took place in 1871, to Miss Alice L. Gitt, daughter of 
Joseph S. (C. E.) and Anna Gitt, of New Oxford, Penn.  One child has been born 
to him – George W., February 22, 1872.  Mr. Start is a Republican, and one of 
the leading business men of Hanover.  Mr. Stark is a member of the Reformed 
Church; Mrs. Stark is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.