- Oscar R Star, Head, M, W, 43, M1, 22, Wisconsin, New York, Vermont, Farm Laborer, Working Out, owns home
Hattie Star, Wife, F, W, 38, M1, 22, 8 children born - 7 living, Michigan, Michigan, –, none
May N Star, Daughter, F, W, 20, S, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Michigan, attending school
Lutheria R Star, Daughter, F, W, 18, S, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Michigan, attending school
Roy Star, Son, M, , 15, S, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Michigan, attending school
Laura Star, Daughter, F, W, 12, S, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Michigan, attending school
Murray C Star, Son, M, , 10, S, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Michigan, attending school
Cora R Star, Daughter, F, W, 7, S, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Michigan, attending school
Theodore Star, Son, M, , 3, S, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Michigan, none
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- Oscar Starr, one of the old-time settlers in western Nebraska, resides on his well-improved farm in section 4, township 33, range 35, Cherry county. He has always done his full share in the upbuilding of the community in which he lives, and is highly esteemed as a man of sterling character and strict integrity.
Mr. Starr was born in Vernon county, Wisconsin, June 4. 1866. His father, Comfort Starr, was a farmer by occupation, and one of the pioneers of eastern Nebraska. He drove in this state with a team and covered wagon containing his household goods, in 1876, locating in Butler county, where his death occurred in the fall of 1878. Our subject settled in Cherry county in 1887 and remained there up to the early spring of 1908, when he moved to Mt. Vernon, Washington. He had nothing to start with, and took up a homestead on Niobrara river, his first building being a log shack. He got a team of bulls and began to break up his farm, batching it for the first two years. He gradually built up his place and proved up on it, and then moved down on the river bank. After getting started he added to his acreage, and now has a ranch of six hundred and eighty acres, one hundred of which is cultivated. He has good buildings, plenty of water, and has made a fine place of it. He has seen many hard times, and often became discouraged during the drouth periods and other failures of crops.
Mr. Starr was married in 1890 to Miss Hattie Maybee, daughter of William Maybee, a pioneer in Holt and Cherry counties. Mr. and Mrs. Starr have a family of seven children, named as follows: William, May, Louie, Roy; Laura, Murray and Cora.
Politically Mr. Starr is a stanch Republican, and has held numerous local offices, and was serving as justice of the peace at the time of his removal to the coast. He is always active in affairs of interest to his community, and lends his time and influence to the betterment of home conditions. Mr. Starr has always been an enthusiastic huntsman, and has been all over this part of the country and the reservations in South Dakota, camping out for weeks at a time, and has brought down some fine specimens of game of all kinds.
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1866 - 1938 (71 years)
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