Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-06-29
COMFORT sr4R DESCENDANTS.
Reunion Of Family Held in Brattleboro
With % Present-Progenitor Came
Over on Hercules

The annual meeting of the Starr family
was held Wednesday afternoon in the par
Tors of the Brooks House. where dinner was
served at o'clock to % members of the as
ISOLATION, which numbers about AS. The as
soclation was organized y years ago in Bos-
ton and this was the first meeting ever held
in Vermont. Last year the meeting was in
Hartford, Conn. and the others have been
held in eastern Massachusetts, and Connect
| cut The meeting yesterday was to do hon
or to Comfort Starr, one of the founders
of the town of Gulford who led a party of
men to Westminster in l775 and broke up
an English court, and in honor of another
member of the family who was an early
benefactor of Middlebury college
After the dinner President Hosea Starr
Balou read short paper on The Voyage of
| the Hercules in March, 1884, to New Eng
land, in which he showed that Comfort
Starr, the date of whose coming to Ameri-
| ca had been shrouded for years in mystery,
was concident with the arrival of the Her
cules and that Comfort Starr, with three
children and three servants, was among the
passengers. He 4speculated, on the reason
why the wealthy class of Englishmen who
came over on the Mercury sailed from the
port of Sandwich, some distance removed
iiohi thtli ioHe, anu Sdlu JudJ he ulScOV-
cred years ago that the Hercules had been
refused permission earlier that winter to
sail from the nearer port of Dover He said
that it was quite possible that the govern
ment preferred to keep such Englishmen at
home
The principal paper was by Prof. Starr
w. Cutting of Chicago university who was
original and philosophical in his discussion
of the Importance of Genealogical Study in
America. \ paper on Capt Comfort Starr,
one of the founders of Guilford, prepared
by Mrs. ID. H. Clement of Brooklyn, n y,
was read by her sister, Mrs. A. s. Cressy
of Hartford, Conn
These officers were elected: President.
Hosea Starr Ballou of Boston; vice presi-
dent, Prof. Starr w. Cutting of Chicago:
treasurer, Prof Arthur Stone Dewing of
Cambridge, Mass; secretary, Miss Mary
Turner of East Dover
| The directors elected were Arthur Farley
Starr of Chicago Mrs. b. A Hough of Dan
bury, Conn, Frederick W. Starr of Brook
lyn, n. Y, James r. l.. Starr of Toronto.
Canada William S. Starr of New London,
Conn, Rev. Dr. Albert Z. Dunning of
Brooklne Mass, j. L. Starr Hunt of Mex
leo City, Mexico, General Clarence Starr
Steward of Chattanooga, Tenn, H. p Starr
of Spencer, Mass, Merritt Starr of Chica-
go, William j. Starr of Easton, Md, Mrs
Persis C. Morris of London, England, Louis
Morris Starr of New York, Mrs. d. H. Gle
ment of Brooklyn, n. Y, Miss Helen Nj.
Spring of Philadelphia Pa.
Those present were Prof and Mrs. Starr
W. Cutting of Chicago, Mrs. Edith Starr
Hunt Richardson of Bratteboro, Mrs Lii
liam j. Prouty, Lawrence w. Snow, Laton
G. Snow. Mrs. C. H. Turner. Mr.. and Mrs.
f. II. Pratt, and Miss Mary j. Turner of
East Dover, Mrs. Ola Starr Halliday, Mrs.
II. w. Spaulding, Mrs. j. f, Haynes, Mrs.
A. Z. Miller, Mrs, w. G. Horton, Miss Cora
c. Hatch, Mrs. Merton s. Lazelle, Miss
Grace l.. Pratt, Mrs Hayes Bigelow and
Mrs. Farley F. Crown of Bratteboro, Miss
Nellie NJ Starr of Wilbraham, Mass, Mrs
Minnie A. Betterley of Springfield, Mass,
Mrs, Herbert j. Clark of West Brattleboro,
Mrs. Mary r. Dawson of Fitchburg, Mass,
Mr.. and Mrs, Hosea Starr Balou of Bos-
ton, Mrs. Alta Starr Cressy of Hartford.
Conn, and Mrs. Z. Starr Morse of Bos-
ton.
There are many members of the Starr
family in this locality. The one best re-
membered bearing the family name was Par
ley Starr, who was a prominent resident of
Jacksonville before coming to Brattleboro
He was president of the Peoples National
bank of this town when it was organized in
1875 and for several years following.