Biography

From his obituary: "
This estimable gentleman, an old and distinguished member of the Cincinnati Bar, died in this city on Saturday morning last at the residence of his nephew, Henry W. Starr, Esq. His disease was typhoid fever, contracted during a journey to the north where he spent a great part of the month of July in the new and recently settled portions of Minnesota. He returned to this place on the 1st of August, and was taken sick on the 6th. His disease baffled the kind attention of friends and all the skill of his physicians, and he lingered until the 30th, when he died in great peace, and in the triumphs of a Christian faith.

Henry Starr was born in Litchfield county, Connecticut, in March, 1781; he was a graduate of William College, Massachusetts. He was admitted to the Bar in Connecticut, and in 1818 removed to the West. He practiced law with distinction and succes in Madison and adjacent counties in Illinois, until 1826, when he removed to Cincinnati, and resumed the practice in that city. He was eminently successful in his profession, the study of which he ever prosecuted with zeal and unusual application. His unbending integrity secured him unlimited confidence -- and cases of great complication and difficulty were often referred for final decision to him, associated with the distinguished Charles Hammond--especially Insurance cases--a branch of the law in which he was profund. He was remarkably temperate and abstemious in his habits; and in all actions signally exemplified all the Christian virtues. He ever had an aversion to the turmoil of politics, and steadily declined office, thou!
gh often solicited. He was beloved by all young men, to whom he was ever ready to lend a helping hand. In his charities he was unbounded, and it may well be said in the language of Woolsey; "he will have a tomb of Orphan's tears wept on him."

He leaves a widow, and four step children of hers by a former marriage."


Mentioned in 1841 and 1842 letters between AxS and WHS as "Mr Starr" or "Mr Henry Starr" as the lawyer that is working on the transfer of BJS's estate to AxS.