REV. C. STARCK, Pastor of the First Evangelical Lutheran Church of Platteville; is a native of Erfurt, Germany, born in 1824; he was educated and entered the ministry in Germany, and came to America in 1851; came to Platteville in 1857, and remained till 1862; in 1871, he went to Louisville, Ky., and was professor in a high school there two years, then accepted a pastorate at Springfield, Ill., and remained there till the spring of 1880, when he was recalled to Platteville; he was for many years one of the Directors of Carthage Lutheran College of Illinois, and is at present, President of the Wartburg Synod of the E. L. Church.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.