"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP AND MARTINSVILLE, MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
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JESSE R. STARKEY, second son and third child in a family of nine children,
was born August 12, 1849, in Madison County, Ill. His parents, Joel W. and
Jane C. (Hagerman) Starkey, natives of Illinois and Indiana respectively,
were married in Illinois in 1844, and located on a farm in Madison County,
where they lived until 1869. Removing thence to a farm in Logan County,
they have since resided there. Jesse Starkey was reared and educated in his
native county. When he was twenty years of age, he entered Lincoln
University at Lincoln, Ill., from which he graduated in 1874 after four
years of hard study. During the winter following (1874-75), he was
Principal of the schools at Broadwell, Ill., and during the two succeeding
winters taught select school in Boyle County, Ky. In the fall of 1876, he
took the Principalship of the Martinsville Schools, where he at present
resides. On December 21, 1876, he was married to Phibbie H. Caldwell,
daughter of R. H. Caldwell, a resident of Boyle County, Ky. By this union
there have been four children--Lucy D. (deceased), Ella, Horace L. and
Russell I. Mr. Starkey is a member of the I. O. O. F., Martinsville Lodge,
No. 274, and in politics is a Democrat. Mr. and Mrs. Starkey are members of
the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
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