Hon. Peter Starr, son of a clergyman of the same name in Warren, Conn., was graduated at Williams College in 1799, and devoted the following year to the business of instruction, as the first preceptor of an academy then just established in Westfield, Mass. The succeeding year he officiated as tutor in Williams College. He pursued his professional studies partly in Williamstown, Mass. and partly in the office of Samuel Miller in this place. He was admitted to the bar in this county in February 1805, and immediately opened an office with an extensive and increasing practice. He has been several times called by the suffrages of the people to represent the town in the House of Representatives, and the county in the Senate. He was chosen a member of the Council of Censors in 1841, and has filled numerous offices and trusts in town. Except these partial interruptions, he has continued an extensive practice, as counsellor and advocate, until within a few years past, the infirmities of increasing age have induced him to relinquish its active duties. In 1819 he was elected a member of the corporation of Middlebury College, and has since been a prominent and influential member of that body. He is also a member of the corporation of Addison County Grammar School, and has always afforded efficient aid in the promotion of our literary institution's.
(From "History of the Town of Middlebury" by Samuel Swift; pub. by A.H. Copeland, Middlebury, Vt., 1859)
(From "History of the Town of Middlebury" by Samuel Swift; pub. by A.H. Copeland, Middlebury, Vt., 1859)
Hon. Peter Starr, son of a clergyman of the same name in Warren, Conn., was graduated at Williams College in 1799, and devoted the following year to the business of instruction, as the first preceptor of an academy then just established in Westfield, Mass. The succeeding year he officiated as tutor in Williams College. He pursued his professional studies partly in Williamstown, Mass. and partly in the office of Samuel Miller in this place. He was admitted to the bar in this county in February 1805, and immediately opened an office with an extensive and increasing practice. He has been several times called by the suffrages of the people to represent the town in the House of Representatives, and the county in the Senate. He was chosen a member of the Council of Censors in 1841, and has filled numerous offices and trusts in town. Except these partial interruptions, he has continued an extensive practice, as counsellor and advocate, until within a few years past, the infirmities of increasing age have induced him to relinquish its active duties. In 1819 he was elected a member of the corporation of Middlebury College, and has since been a prominent and influential member of that body. He is also a member of the corporation of Addison County Grammar School, and has always afforded efficient aid in the promotion of our literary institution's.
(From "History of the Town of Middlebury" by Samuel Swift; pub. by A.H. Copeland, Middlebury, Vt., 1859)
(From "History of the Town of Middlebury" by Samuel Swift; pub. by A.H. Copeland, Middlebury, Vt., 1859)
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