From the book History of Walworth County Wisconsin, by Albert Clayton Beckwith, 
publ. 1912 - Page 561
 
HENRY J. STARIN, son of Jacob F. STARIN and Mary SCHERMERHORN, was born at 
Glen, Montgomery county, New York, August 25, 1808; married Ella Green 
SCHERMERHORN in 1835; came to Whitewater in 1840; was a horticulturist, and the 
village owed much to his early efforts in planting shade trees.  He was found 
dead in his bed, May 5, 1880.  He had sons Henry Allen, and Duane, a soldier of 
the Civil war.  His brother, Frederick Jacob STARIN, born April 17, 1821, 
married Jane Martha GROAT; died October 2, 1896.  He was a surveyor and civil 
engineer and was connected with most of the early railway building in which 
Whitewater had great concern.

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