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STARR, Frederick Ratchford, author, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 19 June, 1821. He removed to this country and became president of an insurance company in Philadelphia, but retired in 1870 and established at Litchfield, Connecticut, Echo farm, a dairy and stock-farm that has become widely known. Later the Echo farm company was organized by him, which controls large creameries throughout a great part of Litchfield county. Mr. Starr served in the Connecticut legislature in 1883-'4, and has been interested in temperance and other reforms. He has lectured and is the author of " Didley Dumps, the Newsboy" (Philadelphia, 1866); "May I Not?. or Two Ways of looking through a Telescope" (1867); "What Can I Do ? a Question for Professing Christians" (1867; revised ed., 1887) ; "Farm Echoes" (New York, 1881) ; and "From Shore to Shore" (Philadelphia, 1887).
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