CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: DR. JAMES H. STARR - Smith County, TX

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson

DR. JAMES H. STARR.

Dr. James H. Starr, of Marshall, who was Assistant Postmaster General 
of the Confederate States, was born in Connecticutt, December 18, 1809. 
He was graduated from Worthington College, Ohio in 1832. He removed in 
January 1837 to the Republic of Texas and located in Nacogdoches, 
where he resided until May 1870 when he changed his res­dence to 
Marshall. He was in 1839-40 Secretary of the Treasury of the Republic 
of Texas. After practicing medicine successfully for a few years he 
entered the land and banking business and made a large fortune. 
Although orIginally opposed to secession, Dr. Starr went with his 
state out of the Union, gave his sons as soldiers to the Confederate 
army and volunteered himself, his health being frail and his execu­tive 
ability being well known he was prevailed on to accept the office of 
Assistant Postmaster General of the Confedera­cy, which he did and 
rendered service until the end in May 1865. Dr. Starr was long an 
eminent citizen of the Lone Star State, honored and respected by all 
classes, and his death a few years ago in Marshall was universally 
deplored. His wife, who was Miss Harriet Johnson and whom he married 
February 21, 1833, died many years ago.