Stark ¾ Scotland and America

A Bull's head, erased a, r,

(Distilling blood, p, p, r):

Fortiorum fortia tacta.

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Officers

1910-1911

President

MoREAU J. StARK, North Plain, Conn.

Vice-Presidents

WILLIAM H. GEER, Yantic, Conn. R. F. D. 1.

SIDNEY E. ACKLEY, Chester, Conn.

EDWARD D. NEWBURY, Moodus, Conn.

Secretary and Treasurer

MARY FANNY CLARK, Alger St., New London, Conn.

Historian

CHARLES R. STARK, 41 Chapin, Providence, R. I.

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Report of the Secretary

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IN sending out our Annual this year we feel very glad to report an increase in membership and a growing interest in our Association. We appreciate the thought so pleasantly expressed to us in the many letters received of love for the family name, and for the bond of friendship and kinship. We want these ties strengthened; we want to know each other better. We hope that every one will feel that the pages of the annual are yours. And to make it interesting and profitable we hope another year to have contributed articles from some of our more distant members.

Our Fifteenth Annual Reunion was held at the Golden spur Inn, East Lyme, Conn., on August 24, 1910. There was a good attendance and the meeting was of more than usual interest. We had our first opportunity of meeting Mr. and Mrs. William E. Wheeler of Mystic, Conn., Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Lyon of Danville, Ill., Mrs. Mary Williams Fenn of Meriden, Conn., Capt. Benjamin Stark of New London, Conn., and Dr. Lucien Stark of aurora, Neb.

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Capt. Benjamin Stark brought with him the coat-of-arms of the Stark Family, which his father, the late Honorable Benjamin Stark, obtained in Scotland something more than fifty years ago. Mrs. M. J. Osborne of Manchester, N. H., sent us a souvenir card of the Gen. Stark Homestead in Manchester and expresses her regrets at not being present at the reunion. She says: "I am a double Stark, descending from Gen. John, and also his sister, Annie, who married William Gamble. Living among Starks all of my life I am much interested in all descendants." We had a souvenir card of the last home of Ann Fitch, wife of Nathan Stark, great-grandson of the Mystic settler. Ann Fitch was the daughter of James Fitch and Ann Denison, and a great-granddaughter of Rev. James Fitch, who in 1638 at the age of sixteen years came to America. Their home was in Lebannon, Conn. At the time of the Revolutionary War, Nathan Stark, a loyalist, fled to Long Island, where he died. His wife, Ann Fitch Stark, made her home with her daughter, Lucy Stark Rogers, whose daughter, Lydia, married Caleb Stark. Their son, Albert Welcome Stark, occupied this place until the time of his decease. It is now occupied by his son and daughter, Jeremiah Stark and Mrs. Judge Holbrook, great-great-grandchildren of Ann Fitch and Nathan Stark. Not far away is the cemetery where lie Ann Fitch Stark's parents, Deacon James Fitch and his wife, Ann Denison; also may of her descendants and her sister, Elizabeth, wife of Col. Jeremiah Mason.

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Report of the Treasurer

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1909-1910

Balance in treasury Aug. 19.............. $1.94

Received for membership fees........... 47.00

Received for two electrotype plates....   4.00

Received for Books sold................... 11.42

Gift.................................................   1.00

                                                      ¾¾¾ $69.36

Paid for printing the Annual...............$59.27

Paid for posting same......................  34.30

Paid for printing 125 invitations.........    4.00

Paid for posting same......................    2.25

Paid for 1 phone call........................    1.75

Paid for postage, stationary and extras. 3.36

                                                      ¾¾¾ $70.14

                                                                  ¾¾¾

Deficit  ..........................................              $0.78

     MARY FANNY CLARK, Treasurer.             

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Report of Historian

AT the annual meeting the Historian presented the following obituary notices in lieu of the customary report, craving the indulgence of the Association for the submission of his report in print.

HERBERT SPENCER STARK.

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Hospital, Denver, Feb, 18, 1910. Capt. Stark, who had been examining some mining property at Idaho Springs, was brought to Denver on a special train when attacked with diabetes. He is survived by a widow and three children. Capt. Stark married Miss Harriet A. Buck of San Jose in August, 1894, and graduated in geology and mining (from Leland Stanford-C. R. S.) in January, 1895. He worked for some time under the late James E. Mills at the Copperopolis mines in Calaveras County, Cal., and then went to South Africa, at first as assayer at the Crown Reef mines at Johannesburg. From that position he rose to be the manager of the company in 1898. When the Boer War broke out he continued to operate the mines as long as possible, but finally entered the engineering corps of the British Army and rose to the rank of captain of engineers. After the war he returned to the mines and was manager of the Crown Reef Mining Company until Nov. 1, 1905, when he resigned to take charge of the operations of a company organized to use a process devised by himself to recover gold from tailings. A few years ago he returned to the United States and engaged in general practice as a mining engineer. For the past two years he maintained offices in Los Angeles and most of his engineering work has been confined to mines in Nevada.

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Annie S. Faris

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Mrs. Faris grew to womanhood in Fairfax and after the district school finished the course at New Hampton Institute, located in Fairfax, and commenced teaching early in 1861. After two years' work in the Vermont schools, Mrs. Faris came to Illinois and accepted a position in a school in Marshall County, which lasted four years. Aug. 22, 1867, at Fairfax she was married to John R. Faris, a Virginian by birth, who came to Illinois from Wheeling, W. Va. He served three years during the Civil War in Co. B, 86th Ill. Vol. Infantry. He was a graduate of Washington College, located in Washington, Pa. After living nine years in Illinois, where four children

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were born to them and one had died, they came to Iowa, locating near Mt. Ayr, and since 1899 made Mt. Ayr their home. Mr. Faris died in 1907.

Mrs. Faris united with the Presbyterian Church early in life and has been an active member in church, Sunday School and missionary work. Through her efforts and a few others a Sunday School was organized in the county, which later grew into a church, which has done, and is doing, much good in the community. She has several times represented the county in the State S. S. Convention and was a delegate from the State of Iowa to the Seventh International and Second World's Convention held in St. Louis in 1893, and again appointed a delegate to the Eighth International Convention held in Boston in 1896. The reports of the Convention were asked for by the press of the country, also given in S. S. Conventions. Mrs. Faris was President of the local Missionary Society for years, and particularly active in Home Missions, feeling that with such a horde of foreigners invading our shores that the home work must be kept up whatever the cost. With all her other work she never lost sight of educational matters. The first Monday in the new century she organized a historical and literary club, called the Nineteenth Century Club of Mt. Ayr. There are others in the country by the same name, but not organized earlier or received its name sooner. It was organized to study United States history and

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American authors. Mrs. Faris was leader and made out the program the first year. Later was President two years and assisted on the program for several years more, till her husband's failing health compelled her to give up some of her literary work. But the club still moves on under able hands and has done and is still doing, excellent work.

Mrs. Faris spends the winters with her sons in Oklahoma, and is delighted with the climate, as well as with the intelligence of the people. They are mostly from the north and east, with the energy those people are noted for. No one would believe to see their fine homes, well cultivated farms and magnificent cities that twenty-one years ago it was unimproved and inhabited only by Indians and wild animals. Its educational interests are in keeping with its agricultural ones, both of the best. Mrs. Faris hopes to meet with the "Family," in which she is greatly interested and see some who now she knows only through the reports of the annual meeting.

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Lucetta Pauline Boynton

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Lucetta Pauline ( Stark) Boynton, daughter of Paul and Paulina (Billings) Stark, is a native of Pennsylvania, but is of New York and Connecticut ancestry. Of her father's family, the _.first American representative, Aaron Stark, resided near the head of Mystic River. He was elected freeman at Stonington, Conn., in 1666, and died in New London, Conn., in 1685. His son, William, died in 1730. William's son, Christopher, removed to Wyoming Valley in 1769 and died in 1771. His son, William, moved from Dutchess County, New York, to Pennsylvania and settled on Tunkhannock Creek. His wife was Polly Cary, and through her Mrs. Boynton traces her Cary ancestry in an unbroken line to 1170^. Polly (Cary) Stark and her son, Nathan Stark, were in the fort at Wyoming during the terrible massacre so celebrated in history. The father, William Stark, was a Revolutionary soldier, and the son, Nathan, enlisted in the Dutchess County, New York, troops and fought for independence.

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Gibbs Jones' company of artillery. Mrs. Boynton's maternal great-grandfather, Samuel Billings, enlisted in Capt. Ransom's company, which was formed in the Wyoming Valley in the latter part of 1776. This company took part in the battle of Millstone, Jan. 2. 1777, and later in the battles of Bound Brook, Brandy- wine, Germantown and Mud Fort. Coming of such a line, it is not to be wondered at that Mrs. Boynton is intensely patriotic. She was instrumental in organizing Gen. John Stark Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, was its first Regent, and continues to hold that office, taking a deep interest in its work and contributing largely to its success.

The four children of the family were born here and two, with their families, are still residents of Sycamore. Mr. Boynton died April 18, 1900, and since that time, as well as before, Mrs. Boynton has spent much time in travel. She has made two trips to Europe, the last time visiting also the Holy Land and Egypt. She has also journeyed to the West Indies, visiting Martinique shortly after the eruption of Mt. Pelee, and later went to Mexico. In the early part of 1907 she spent several months in China and Japan,

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and her beautiful home in Sycamore is filled with rare artistic treasures collected on her various journeys. 

Mrs. Boynton is a prominent member of the Episcopal Church and has contributed liberally to its work, among other gifts being that of its Guild Hall. She has contributed largely to the Public Library here, having been a member of its Board since its erection, and she has also erected an ornamental drinking fountain and presented it to the city of Sycamore in memory of her husband, Charles Oakes Boynton.

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Members of the Association

1910-1911

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*Names omitted in enrollment 1910.

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Members and Friends Present

Reunion August 29, 1910

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