Lizzie Browning Faxon

HORACE CLAPP STARR,— son of Raymond 564,— b. Feb. 15, 1820, at Harpersfield, N. Y.; lived in Penfield; settled at Elyria, 0.; one of the partners in the firm of Starr Bros. & Co., extensive merchants; vestryman in the Episcopal church.

He m. July 5, 1848. SARAH PHELPS, dau. of Cyrus and Lucy Swan (Browning) WHEELER, b. Sept. 30, 1826, at Norwich, N. Y.; d. Aug. 10, 1870.

Children.

• May, b. May 31, 1849, d. Aug. 5, 1851.
• Lizzie Browning, b. Dec. 23, 1852.
• Marion Parsons, b. Feb. 24, 1854.
• Horace Truman, b. Mch. 23, 1857.
• Newton, b. Feb. 10, 1861, d. Aug. 15, 1861.

Bibliographic information:

• A history of the Starr family of New England, from the ancestor, Dr. Comfort Starr of Ashford, County of Kent, England, who emigrated to Boston, Mass., in 1635 ; ...
• by Starr, Burgis Pratt, 1822-1883
• Published 1879
• Topics Starr family, genealogy
• Publisher Hartford, Conn. : Case, Lockwood & Brainard
• Pages 1208
• Possible copyright status NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
• Language English
• Call number 31833013935777
• Digitizing sponsor MSN
• Book contributor Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
• Collection allen_county; americana
• Scanfactors 188
• Full catalog record MARCXML
• Page 379
• Identifier-access http://www.archive.org/details/historyofstarrfa00star

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John Hall Faxon, secretary of the Flushing Coal Company and of the Faxon Realty Company, of Elyria, has always been one of the leading and most versatile business men of the Western Reserve, and is a sterling representative of the family which was so early established in Lorain county and has never failed in the best promotion of its interests. He was born in Elyria, January 30, 1851, and is a son of the late John Hall Faxon, mentioned at length in the sketch of the Faxon family. His education was obtained in the public schools of his native city, and he began his business career as deputy under E. G. Johnson, then auditor of Lorain county.

In 1871 Mr. Faxon became a bookkeeper in the National Bank of Elyria, and after holding that position until 1880 resigned to become identified with mining interests in Boston, Massachusetts. Working along this line for two years, he then became identified with the Akron (Ohio) Water Works for about the same length of time, after which he engaged in railroad construction in West Virginia and Pennsylvania. Operations in the iron and steel pipe industry at Warren, Ohio, occupied him for the succeeding few years, and he then assumed his present duties as secretary of the Flushing Coal Company and the Faxon Realty Company, both of which are family enterprises.

Mr. Faxon is also an active member of the Elyria Chamber of Commerce, is a Royal Arch Mason and stands high in social and fraternal as well as business circles.

Mr. Faxon's wife was formerly Miss Lizzie Browning Starr, a native of Elyria, where she was born December 22, 1852, daughter of the late Horace Clapp Starr, so widely known in that place as a leading pioneer merchant, and in Akron as treasurer of the water works. Her mother (nee Sarah P. Wheeler) is also deceased. Mr. Starr was born in Harpersfield, New York, February 15, 1820, son of Raymond and Betsey (Penfield) Starr, paternal and maternal ancestors, having settled there during the early portion of the century as emigrants from Danbury, Connecticut. In 1828 representatives of both families settled at Penfield, Lorain county, and in 1831 Raymond Starr moved to Elyria, where he resided until his death in 1870. When Mr. Starr and his family arrived the little village was only fifteen years old, and there the fourth son, Horace, received his early education and his first business experience. In 1841 he became associated with S. W. Baldwin and George Starr in the formation of the firm of Baldwin and Company ; in 1852, Starr Brothers and Company was established, and in 1863 Horace Starr went to California, where, for three years, he was engaged in various mining enterprises with his brother-in-law, C. T. Wheeler. In 1866 he resumed his mercantile business at Elyria, his store in the Ely block was wiped out in the 1873 fire, but the business was resumed and continued until the dissolution of the firm in 1878. From 1881 until his resignation, February 1, 1909, Mr. Starr served as treasurer of the Akron Water Works, his death occurring on the 26th of the following month. The deceased married Miss Sarah Phelps Wheeler on the 5th of July, 1848, who died in August, 1870, mother of the following : Mrs. John H. Faxon ; Mrs. Marian Harrington, a resident of Boston, and Horace T. Starr, who lives in Cleveland.

Mr. and Mrs. Faxon have become the parents of five children :

Truman Starr, who was born September 28, 1875, and is now connected with the Grafton Stone Company;

Cyrus Wheeler, born December 13, 1879, who is a Harvard graduate ('02) and identified with the Hayden- Miller Company, bond brokers of Cleveland ;

Richard, who was born July 10, 1883, and is now a student at the Ohio State University;

John Hall, Jr., born December 6, 1885, who is associated with the Steams Automobile Company of Cleveland ;

Dorothy Browning Faxon, born July 22, 1892, who is a student at the MacDuffie School for Girls at Springfield, Massachusetts ; and

Forest Starr, born October 1, 1894.

Bibliographic information:

• History of the Western Reserve
• by Upton, Harriet Taylor; Cutler, Harry Gardner, 1856-
• Published 1910
• Topics Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History, genealogy
• Volume 2
• Publisher Chicago ; New York : The Lewis Publishing Company
• Pages 886
• Possible copyright status NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
• Language English
• Call number 31833024056142
• Digitizing sponsor MSN
• Book contributor Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
• Collection allen_county; americana
• Scanfactors 11
• Full catalog record MARCXML
• Page 787
• Identifier-access http://www.archive.org/details/historyofwestern02upto