Samuel Starkweather, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Samuel Starkweather

American politician

Date of Birth: 27-Dec-1799

Place of Birth: Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States

Date of Death: 05-Jul-1876

Profession: lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Samuel Starkweather

  • Samuel Starkweather (December 27, 1799 – July 5, 1876) was mayor of Cleveland from 1844 to 1845 and served a second term from 1857 to 1858. Starkweather was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island to Oliver and Miriam (Clay) Starkweather.
  • He graduated from Brown College in 1822, tutored there until 1824, and then left to study law in Windham, Connecticut.
  • Starkweather was admitted to the bar in Columbus in 1826.
  • Starkweather moved to Cleveland soon after and joined the Cleveland Grays in 1837, where he took a prominent position in Cleveland politics.
  • Starkweather was elected mayor in 1844, won reelection in 1845, and again in 1857 for a 2-year term.
  • He was the first judge of the Cuyahoga Court of Common Pleas elected under the new Constitution and served a 5-year term.
  • Starkweather helped establish the first high school in Cleveland.
  • He also promoted railroads in Cleveland and helped establish the Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad. He was collector of the ports of Cleveland, and built a lighthouse of which he was superintendent in 1831.
  • The US Treasury paid him $4,997.00 on the lighthouse and $113.30 for expenditures for it.
  • The land cost $1,000.00.
  • He also built a lighthouse on Turtle Island, Lake Erie, Port Clinton OH in 1832 for which the US Government paid him $1,068.43.
  • The US Government also paid him in 1831 for the support and maintenance of the lighthouses, floating lights, beacons, buoys, and stakeages.
  • He also built or established a marine hospital on which the US Treasury paid him $147.17. Starkweather married Julia Judd on June 25, 1828.
  • Their 4 children were Sarah, Samuel, William, and Julia.
  • Starkweather is buried in Lake View Cemetery.

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