Background
Starr, the second son of Frederick and Sarah Starr, of Rochester, New York, was born in that city, January 23, 1826.
Starr, the second son of Frederick and Sarah Starr, of Rochester, New York, was born in that city, January 23, 1826.
He graduated from Yale College in 1846.
He turned immediately upon leaving College, to the preparation for the ministry. Toward the end of the same year he was ordained pastor of this Church. His location, on the western border of the State, but four miles from Fort Leavenworth, exposed him to the agitation concerning the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and the Kansas Border War.
Finally, after varied persecution, his declared conviction that slavery was morally wrong, obliged him to leave the town, to avoid violence, in the Spring of 1855.
The next seven years he passed in Western New York, as agent of the Western Education Society, and of Auburn Theological Seminary. Mr. Starr was the author of a pamphlet, published anonymously, in 1853, entitled Letters for the People, on the Present Crisis, (52 pages, Octavo) which contained nine letters written from Saint Louis, and discussing the influence of slavery upon the opening of Nebraska Territory and the building of the Pacific Railroad.
This pamphlet had, it is believed, a wide influence. He also published a sermon on President Lincoln"s death.
He died in Saint Louis, Missouri, of a fever, induced by overwork, January 8, 1867, aged 41 years.
This article incorporates public domain material from the Yale Obituary Record.