Henry Gerhard Starke

Henry Starke resided at 1880 East 24th Street, Cleveland, OH. Occupation: first employed cutting wood at 50 cents per cord; factory work for 3 years; oil refinery business with charles A Dean, the pioneer oil man of Cleveland; forman for Schofield & Holly; forman with Hussey & McBride in oil; grocery business on Scovill Avenue for 20 years where he made "substantial and merited profit". Also became associated with street railwayinterests in connection with Tom L Johnson, helping to build the Scovill Avenue line; he acted as general forman and superintendent of the road and was later manager and purchasing agent at the barns of the company. He was known as the Father of the Brookly line and remained with the street railway until is consolidation, after which he ws claim agent for the construction line for 2 years.. Moved to Detroit with Johnson railway and was actively engaged in the change of the lines from horse to electric power. Returned to Cleveland where he was appointed Superintendent of Parks and is credited with extending and improving the park system. By this time, making investments in property,he became owner of extensive real-estate interests.

This information was found by Matt Starke in 2010 through Google's project to make the world's books discoverable online. This book survived long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.

The book it titled History of Cleveland and can be found at <http://books.google.com/>; information regarding Henry Starke can be found on pages 1076-77.