Dr. Robert Starkweather

  • Born September 6, 1765 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut.
  • Parents were ROBERT STARKWEATHER and SARAH EVELETH.
  • Married SARAH EAGER in 1786 in Worthington, Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
  • Studied medicine with his brother, Ezra, in Worthington, Massachusetts.
  • Occupation - Physician & Surgeon in Chesterfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
  • Died May 8, 1858 in Chesterfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts.





CHILDREN

  1. RODNEY STARKWEATHER, born February 8, 1788 in Worthington, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; died April 9, 1872 in Waterville, Lucas County, Ohio. Married JANE STARKWEATHER on February 9, 1815 in Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
  2. HORACE STARKWEATHER, born March 25, 1790; died August 26, 1791.
  3. LAURA STARKWEATHER, born April 12, 1792 in Chesterfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; died September 16, 1869 in Chesterfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. Married OLIVER EDWARDS on June 15, 1815 in Chesterfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
  4. ORPHA STARKWEATHER, born April 23, 1794 in Chesterfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; died in July, 1865 in Goshen, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. Married EMMONS PUTNEY.
  5. HORACE STARKWEATHER, born Agusut 22, 1799 in Chesterfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; died about 1854 in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan. Married ELECTA NIMS on June 6, 1827 in Deerfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts.

SOURCES:

  • Clarence Etienne Leonard, The Fulton-Hayden-Warner Ancestry in America (New York: T.A. Wright, 1923), Page 107
  • Carlton Lee Starkweather, A Brief Genealogical history of Robert Starkweather of Roxbury and Ipswich, Massachusetts : who was the original American ancestor of all those bearing the name of Starkweather, and of his sons John Starkweather of Ipswich, Mass., and Preston, Conn. (unknown: unknown, 1904), Pages 99 & 100