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Sources for expansion

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Starbuck's "palatial" brick mansion in Salem

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Henry Reuben Starbuck's home

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Career

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North Carolina Constitution Conventions

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  • The original People's Press article about the Winston town hall meeting, it says that the third resolution was to appoint men to the Constitutional Convention (Starbuck and former roommate Rufus Watson Wharton among them): http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/65295939/ checkY

State Attorney / Federal Prosecutor

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  • Starbuck was tried for perjury and won his case on good merit. The case was on the grounds that Starbuck was a member of the North Carolina secession conventions but after the war was appointed State Attorney. He was found to be an avid Unionist through out the entire war, pg.16-17 and two other notes: https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/record/uuid:f2307d21-68af-4a4e-970d-0ecb07a8407e
involvement with impeachment of Confederate Attorney General George Davis
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"Railroad Convention. - A convention was held at Winston on the 16th inst, to take into consideration of a railroad from High Point, via Salem, Winston, Germanton, and near Danbury, to the Virginia line; to take the steps, if practicable, to secure the charter and build the Road; also to take into consideration the proposition to connect the proposed road to commence at the Virginia line and run to Lynchburg, thereby making a direct and continuous route to the North.

Speeches, earnestly advocating the construction of the road, were made by Messrs. Patterson, Masten, Wilson and Starbuck, of Forsyth; Golding, and Joyce, of Stokes, and Ward of Virginia. Messrs F. Fries, R. L. Patterson, J. Masten, Thos. J. Wilson, R. W. Wharton and D. H. Starbuck of Forsyth, R. D. Golding, J. M. Covington, Major Joseph Holderby, Wm. A. Lash and Wilson Fulton, of Stokes, were appointed a committee "to recommend the necessary steps to secure our present charter, and to correspond and consult with the friends of the proposed connection in Virginia, to collect all facts and report the same to a meeting of this convention. to be held in Winston on Tuesday the 22nd of September next." "

involvement with first successful Ku Klux Klan prosecution
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Winston City Commissioner

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In the state and local news

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Personal life and professional life of wife

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  • Charles Clinton "Bud" Tharp, the great-grandson of Benjamin Beeson Starbuck, had (before his death in 2009 ^see obituary) a letter from D. H. Starbuck to his brother Benjamin who moved to Iowa that may give his opinions of the Civil War. Tharp transcribed of a portion of the letter in 2001: http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/starbuck/490/ checkY

Census Data

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  1. 1820 (in the household of Reuben Starbuck) checkY
  2. 1830 (in the household of Reuben Starbuck) checkY
  3. 1840 (in the household of Reuben Starbuck) checkY
  4. 1850 checkY
  5. 1860 checkY
  6. 1870 (includes value of property and belongings; unclear female child named Emma Hege; brother-in-law Jacob Blickensderfer; domestic servant James "Jim" Fulk, Ella is noted as "Ellen".) checkY
  7. 1880 (includes Seth Jones Montague and maid Rebecca Sheek.) checkY

Stocks purchased

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--LurganShmith (talk) 21:44, 4 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ancestry chart (unfinished)

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--LurganShmith (talk) 10:05, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

References

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  6. ^ "Gear Starbuck". Massachusetts Births and Christenings (FamilySearch). 1744. Retrieved February 26, 2017.
  7. ^ Gayer Starbuck (grave marker). Dover Friends Meeting Church Cemetery, Colfax, Guilford, North Carolina: Find a Grave. March 1814. Retrieved February 26, 2017.
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  10. ^ "North Carolina Estate Files, 1663-1979"; database with images, FamilySearch, Benjamin Beeson, 1835-1838, Guilford County, North Carolina; digital folder number 005515607, Family History film 2,168,207; from the State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, North Carolina. Retrieved on March 5, 2017.
  11. ^ "North Carolina Probate Records, 1735-1970: Guilford: Estates Index, 1818-1930, Vol. A-L"; database with images, FamilySearch, page 76, Guilford County, North Carolina; digital film number 004779906; from the State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, North Carolina. Retrieved on March 5, 2017.
  12. ^ "Thomas Starbuck". Massachusetts Births and Christenings (FamilySearch). 1706. Retrieved February 26, 2017.
  13. ^ "MASS-942: Thomas Starbuck Homestead" (pdf). Historic American Buildings Survey. Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation, National Park Service, Department of the Interior. June 1966. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
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  19. ^ "North Carolina Estate Files, 1663-1979"; database with images, FamilySearch, Phebe Beeson, 1830-1831, Guilford County, North Carolina; digital folder number 007641345, Family History film 2,168,207; from the State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, North Carolina. Retrieved on March 5, 2017.
  20. ^ a b c Lewis County Historical Society (1996). Pioneer Families of Lewis County, Kentucky, Indexed. Lewis County, Kentucky: Windmill Publications. The Strode/Stroud family of Lewis and Fleming Counties originated from Samuel Strode who died in 1765 in Loudon County, Virginia. He and his wife, Ann, were known to have one son and four daughters: Susanna; Martha who married Andrew Potts; Mary who married Jonas Potts; Phebe who married Isaac Beeson; and Samuel who married Nancy Watson.
  21. ^ Edward Green Sen (grave marker). Friendship Methodist Church Cemetery, Monticello, Guilford, North Carolina: Find a Grave. May 1835. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  22. ^ Margaret Green (grave marker). Friendship Methodist Church Cemetery, Monticello, Guilford, North Carolina: Find a Grave. July 1840. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  23. ^ a b Hickman, Lydia Swain (1901). Early Settlers of Nantucket: Their Associates and Descendants. Philadelphia: Ferris & Leach. p. 152.
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edits From Donnie

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Slavery

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On February 24, 1840 Darius Starbuck was written into the will of his "friend" Thomas Adams of Stokes County; Starbuck was also named executor of this will. This was witnessed by Thomas J. Wilson. In the will, Starbuck was named heir to an enslaved family owned by Adams upon the death of his wife Lucy, on the condition that Starbuck would emancipate them "as soon as the law will allow." They were named Syphax, Letty, and their children Syphax L., Mary Addine (Mary Magdeline), and Sarah Jane (Sally).[45] The will was notarized on 15 July 1843.[46] On June 22, 1844, however, Starbuck purchased the family for $85.20. Mr. and Mrs. Adams were to continue using Syphax and his family for labor until both of their deaths. Under the new terms, Starbuck was to free the family after they had "worked out the consideration money and interest". This mandated that the family work as indentured servants for Starbuck until the price Starbuck had paid for them, with interest, was returned to him either through labor or by payment. This bill of sale also mentions two more children, Emeline (Nancy Adeline) and Lewis. At the time of purchase in 1844, Syphax was aged about 26 and his wife Letty was about 30. This deed of sale was witnessed by John Hasten, who had to confirm this in court in April 1845.[8] The estate files of Thomas Adams were probated in 1848.[46]

According to the Slave Schedule of 1850, Darius owned one male slave who was reported to census takers as being 37 years old.[30] This may have been Syphax Adams, who appears with a fluctuating age in written records, due to having no knowledge of his exact age.[8][45][46] While Starbuck's home in Winston was being built in 1851, it is possible that Syphax's labor may have been used during the brick mansion's construction.[47] By the time of the 1860 Census, before the abolition of slavery, Syphax and his family were living as freed citizens of the Broadbay Township in Forsyth County.[45] It is unknown if Syphax was paid, or if he worked his family's indenture, or if the family was freed voluntarily by Starbuck.

Death

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D. H. Starbuck died on May 26, 1887. He was buried in Winston-Salem, North Carolina at "God's Acre" Salem Moravian Graveyard.[2] After her death on March 8, 1920 in Old Richmond, North Carolina,[38] his wife ,Ellen, was buried next to him.[48] Ellen's adoptive parents,[49][50] as well as her adoptive father's prior wife, Johanna (Jane) Salome Leinbach Schumann (Shuman), are also buried in the Moravian cemetery in Salem.[51]

Legacy

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Following Starbuck's death in 1887, his only son, Henry Reuben Starbuck, took over the family's law practice. Henry attended the Salem Boys School as a child and graduated from the University of North Carolina with a BA degree. Henry spent a year studying law under Col. George Nathaniel Folk in Caldwell County. He was admitted to the bar by 1888. After having received his own license two years prior in 1886, Adolphus Hill Eller moved to Forsyth, where he became a partner with Henry in the family practice.[52] Henry Starbuck met Eller while they were both attending the University of North Carolina where they were roommates. Henry Reuben Starbuck was elected as a Superior Court Judge in 1894. Upon his elevation to the bench, Eller took over the former Starbuck offices alone. Later, in 1913, Eller added Richard Gordon Stockton as a new partner.[53] Henry Reuben Starbuck kept his position as Superior Court Judge for eight years. He was then elected to the North Carolina Senate in 1909 and 1911. In 1925, the state legislature appointed him as the first Judge of the newly created Forsyth County Court, where he was reappointed by the Governor for three additional terms. After his time in the Forsyth County Court, Henry Reuben returned to law practice with his son William. He continued to practice until a few months before his death in 1958.[34]

Donald a 696 (talk) 04:53, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Notability

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I question if this person meets Wikipedia notability guidelines. Although the page is extensively referenced, the references are dominated by primary sources. There are also very few incoming links, suggesting that Starbuck was not historically important. This has the feel of a very well-researched genealogical essay, but that doesn't mean the subject is encyclopedic. pburka (talk) 00:57, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, wanted to respond to you. You are correct about the content of this article, it does focus too much on genealogy and not enough on his career accomplishments of note. I'm starting a process to revamp this again, I started that process years ago, but I never finished because there were too many sources of information and I was honestly overwhelmed. There are numerous sources which speak about Starbuck's work during reconstruction. He is noteworthy because he was the first federal prosecutor to ever successfully try and convict klansmen under the Ku Klux Klan Act and his legal precedents in the case are still sighted to this day in court. He also wrote a highly publicized letter about the horrors of the Klan which was presented to congress in it's attempts to extend the the klan act which circulated in republican newspapers at the time and is cited today in numerous historical books about the reconstruction era. He also has a hand-full of other cases which are still regularly cited in court, in particular a case involving inheritance law. He was also involved on high profile impeachment proceedings of former confederate office holders. He was also a witness in congress against the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson. I should have started with these, but I got caught up with the stuff that was easier to research and write about. Will absolutely use more second hand sources. It can be difficult to find second hand sources of information on his personal life and career legacy because he was a politician in the pre- and post-civil war south... who was a republican, against slavery, and worked fighting the klan. Most southern, second hand encyclopedic sources only mention his name and titles because the authors of the articles didn't want to highlight or talk of his accomplishments for partisan revisionist historical reasons. ...nevertheless there are secondhand sources, largely historical books about reconstruction and law books which talk of him. I will cite these in further expansions.
I also acknowledge I need to clean the article up a little and reduce some of the unimportant information. LurganShmith (talk) 17:53, 5 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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