Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887,
Woodford Co.

RICHARD S. STARKS was born in Woodford County, Ky., October 6, 1844, and
was educated at the high school of Prof. B. B. Sayre, of Frankfort, Ky.
He is the eldest son of James M. and Susan (Crutcher) Starks.  His father
was born in Virginia and brought as a child by his parents to Kentucky,
where he resided until his death, which occurred in May, 1881.  He has
passed the greater part of his life in Woodford County, was always a model
farmer, and took large interest in the prosperity of the agricultural
classes.  Becoming somewhat embarrassed in finances, he sold his farm in
Woodford County in 1875, and purchased another near the village of
Bergen [sic], in Mercer County, which soon showed the result of his close
attention and fine judgment, and at his death, a few years after, it was
recognized as one of the most valuable farms in the State.  Richard's
mother was the daughter of Richard Crutcher, an old family of Kentucky,
quite numerous in Franklin County.  The mother died when Richard was quite
young.  In 1865 Richard went to Davenport, Iowa, and began the wholesale
and retail drug trade, under the firm name of Harrison and Starks, which
was quite successful, but terminated in 1873 by the retirement of Starks.
Soon after this Mr. Starks formed a stock company called the Midway Paper
Mill Company, with a capital stock of $50,000, and for several years
manufactured 6,000 pounds per day of wrapping paper, which was shipped to
all parts of the South and West.  This enterprise failed and Mr. Starks
again returned to the drug trade, purchasing a retail drug store in
Midway, Ky., where he has remained ever since.  In 1872 he married Mrs.
Lucy Proctor, daughter of A. S. Hibler, Esq., for many years a resident of
Woodford County and a farmer, but a native of Bourbon County, where Mrs.
Starks was born.  They have three children, viz.: Edna, James and Kate.
Mr. Starks is a Royal Arch Mason, and with his wife a member of the
Christian Church.

Starks Crutcher Proctor Hibler
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Frankfort-Franklin-KY Bourbon-KY Burgin-Mercer-KY Davenport-Scott-IA VA

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