Robert Stark

Became a pharmacist in Woodstock, Ontario. Married the Anglican rector's daughter at Ingersoll and became an Anglican.

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ROBERT STARK, chemist, Hamilton, was born in Dundas, April 8th, 1836, son of the late Rev. M. Y. Stark, A.M., Glasgow University, Knox Church, Dundas, and A. G. Street, Devonshire, England. Mr. Stark's earliest instructors were his father and Hon. Robert Spence. He then attended Toronto Academy, and completed his studies in chemistry, etc., at Glasgow University, and in French with Mons. Havet, Glasgow. He learned his business with English chemists, and carried on a drug business in Woodstock from 1857 to 1890, and now manages the business of R. Stark & Co., chemists, 82 York street, Hamilton. Mr. Stark is an Episcopalian, has been church warden, and is also a lay reader by licence of the Bishop of Huron. He is a P.M. of Oxford Lodge, Woodstock, and Oak Branch Lodge, Innerkip, Past ist Principal of Oxford Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and Past Collector of Royal Arcanum, Woodstock. On the i5th of August, 1861, was married by the Bishop of Huron to S. M. J. Revell, daughter of the late Rev. Henry Revell, A.M., T.C., Dublin. Rector of Ingersoll.

Date and place of death and burial from death certificate (online through Ancestry.com). The informant was his daughter, Mrs J Billard, of 25 Foxboro Road.