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Edwin was born on January 25, 1867 in Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States, the son of Artemus B. and Martha (Van Sice) Starks.
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Edwin was born on January 25, 1867 in Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States, the son of Artemus B. and Martha (Van Sice) Starks.
His youth was spent mainly in or near Chicago, where he attended the public schools and later engaged in business. Interested in fishes, he early began to study them, collecting them wherever possible and determining their structure, habits, and relationships.
Starks submitted some of the problems that arose to Theodore Nicholas Gill of the United States National Museum, and to David Starr Jordan, then of the University of Indiana, and received from each of them characteristic encouragement and advice. From the former he acquired an interest in the comparative osteology of fishes which later became his principal field of research.
In 1893 he entered Stanford University as a special student in zoology. Under the broad elective system then existing there it was possible for him to concentrate upon the subjects in which he was interested, and he took full advantage of the opportunities offered. He cared nothing for academic degrees and did not fulfil any set requirements for such, pursuing only the work in which his life interest lay.
With an alert and naturally keen mind and great powers of concentration, he soon justified the confidence placed in him. In the summer of 1895 he participated in an exploration of Puget Sound under Professor Meany of the University of Washington, and undertook the first systematic dredging of that body of water.
Some of the results of his work are incorporated in The Fishes of Panama Bay (1904), prepared in cooperation with Dr. Gilbert, and published also as a memoir of the California Academy of Sciences.
In 1897 he was appointed to an assistantship in the United States Biological Survey, Washington, under C. Hart Merriam, and spent two busy years there. The Harriman Expedition to Alaska, of which he became a member, gave him a rare opportunity in 1899 for study in a new region, and for close association with the noted group of scientists making up its personnel.
Among other field trips which he undertook was one for the United States Bureau of Fisheries to Oregon in 1904, to Puget Sound in 1909 and 1912, and as a member of the Branner-Agassiz expedition to Brazil in 1910. Trips to Europe in 1907 and in 1913-14 to study the fish collections of great museums and to become personally acquainted with European scientists with whom he had corresponded and exchanged publications widened his contacts and gratified his love of travel.
On his return he became curator of the zoological museum and assistant professor in the University of Washington. This position he occupied from 1899 to 1901, relinquishing it to become curator of the zoological collection in Stanford University. He was made assistant professor of zoology in 1907, and associate professor in 1927, serving as such until his retirement in 1932.
His last long collecting trip was to the Philippines in 1926 to secure many rare forms which he required for this study.
He died in 1932.
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He was never physically strong, however, and a cardiac weakness terminated his life that same year.
Starks was married on June 3, 1897, to Chloe Frances Lesley, a fellow student at Stanford, who later was a member of its faculty. A daughter, Dorothy Johanna Starks, became a radiologist and also a member of the Stanford faculty. Mrs. Starks cooperated in the work of her husband, the illustrations of his publications being her contribution to their scientific value.