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George Anson Starkweather (Pennsylvania lawyer)

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George Anson Starkweather

George Anson Starkweather (November 7, 1821 – August 11, 1904) was an American lawyer, merchant, schoolteacher and public official in Pennsylvania.

Biography

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Starkweather served as auditor of Wayne County, township clerk for Canaan, director of one of the examining boards for teachers, overseer of the poor, justice of the peace, and assessor.[1]

A native of the Wayne County borough of Waymart, he built a leather tannery there in 1859, but the structure was subsequently destroyed in a fire.[1]

George Anson Starkweather died at the age of 82.

References

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  1. ^ a b Starkweather, Carlton Lee (1904). Robert Starkweather and his Descendants, Knapp, Peck and Thomson.
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