Joseph Salter
Joseph Salter( June 7, 1816 – January 1, 1901) was a Canadian businessman and politician, becoming Moncton ’s first mayor and one of the leading shipbuilders in the Maritime Provinces.
As a young man employed by John Leander Starr of Halifax, Salter crossed the Atlantic 36 times.
He later built some of the finest and largest ships in Westmorland County.
He kept a diary which was published in 1996.
Lilly Brogi
Lilly Brogi is an Italian artist and poet.
She was born in Livorno, in 1942.
She lives and works in Florence, Italy.
John Starr (politician)
John Starr( February 20, 1775 – December 30, 1827) was a merchant and political figure in Nova Scotia.
He represented Kings County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in 1827.
He supported the Royal Acadian School.
He was born at Starr's Point, Nova Scotia, the son of David Starr and Susannah Potter.
After learning the trade of blacksmith, he moved to Halifax, where he became a merchant and ship owner, operating an import- export business.
In 1797, he married Desiah Gore.
In 1824, Starr became colonel in the Halifax militia.
He was also a magistrate.
He died in office in 1827.
His daughter Margaret Sophia married James Ratchford, who served in the province's legislative council.
His son John Leander Starr also served in the legislative council and married Mary Sophia Ratchford, James' sister.
John Renshaw Starr
John Starr( 1908 – 1996) was an artist and a soldier during the Second World War.
David Ji
David Longfen Ji is an American businessman who co-founded Apex Digital, an electronics manufacturer.
In 2004, he was arrested in China following a dispute with Sichuan Changhong Electric, a supplier owned by the city of Mianyang and the province of Sichuan.
Changhong accused him of defrauding them through bad checks.
Ji was taken, according to an account by his lawyer, to the senior management and told, "I decide whether you live or die."
He has been held in China without charges.
Ji's case highlighted an "implicit racism" in dealings with American businessmen.
As a U.S. citizen he was not granted the same treatment by authorities as non-ethnically Chinese businessmen sharing the same nationality.
John F. Starr
John Farson Starr( March 25, 1818, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – August 9, 1904, Atlantic City, New Jersey), was an American Republican Party politician, who served in the United States House of Representatives, where he represented New Jersey's 1st congressional district from 1863 to 1867.
Starr was born in Philadelphia on March 25, 1818.
He completed preparatory studies, and moved to Camden, New Jersey in 1844.
He was one of the founders of the Camden Iron Works and engaged in mercantile pursuits.
He was president of the First National Bank of Camden for over thirty years, up to the time of his death.
Starr was elected as a Republican to the Thirty- eighth and Thirty- ninth Congresses, serving in office from March 4, 1863 – March 3, 1867, but was not a candidate for renomination in 1866.
He died in Atlantic City, New Jersey on August 9, 1904, and was interred in Harleigh Cemetery in Camden.
John Starr (physician)
John Starr( died 8 December 2018) was a British geriatrician.
He was Honorary Professor at University of Edinburgh and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Public Health.
Elisha DeWolf Jr.
Elisha De Wolf Jr.( March 14, 1801 – September 27, 1850) was a political figure in Nova Scotia.
He represented Kings County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1830 to 1836.
He was born in Horton, Nova Scotia( later Wolfville), the son of Elisha DeWolf and Margaret Ratchford.
In 1826, he married Mary Eliza, the daughter of John Starr.
DeWolf was postmaster at the village of Mud Creek in Upper Horton township.
He petitioned to have the post office renamed to Wolfville, in honour of his father; the name was changed in 1830.
DeWolf died in Sackville, New Brunswick, while travelling between Bathurst, New Brunswick and the United States.
William Robert Renshaw
William Robert Renshaw( 1845 – 1923) was an English industrialist and foundryman.
Renshaw was born to an agricultural family in Handforth in the county of Cheshire, England.
He began his career as an apprentice button- maker at the Union Foundry of Barker and Cope in Kidsgrove, Staffordshire.
In 1880 he was in business with his own foundry, the Victoria Works in Tunstall, Staffordshire, where he produced equipment for collieries, forges and mills, before returning to Kidsgrove to acquire the Union Foundry as a member of a partnership known as Renshaw, King and Company.
He later moved to the Phoenix Works at Cliffe Vale, where electrical and railway equipment was manufactured and where specialist railway carriages and wagons were built for use by the Barnum& Bailey Circus,( see Phineas Taylor Barnum) during its tour of Britain and Europe which began in 1886.
Among other children and grandchildren he had two grandsons worthy of note, namely George and John Starr, both of whom were members of the Special Operations Executive organisation during World War II.
John Starr Cooke
John Starr Cooke( March 1920 – August 21, 1976) was an American mystic and spiritual teacher who influenced the development of the counterculture movement that emerged in San Francisco during 1966 – 1967.
His teachings were based on the doctrine of “ One Consciousness ”, which Cooke believed was communicated to him through a Ouija board in the early 1960s.
He designed three original decks of Tarot cards:( 1967, 1992), the" Atlantean Tarot"( 1992), and the" Medieval Tarot"( 1992).

Question: Were Lilly Brogi and John F. Starr of the same nationality?
Answer: no