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He was succeeded in the Fortieth Congress by Henry H. Starkweather. HENRY H. P. BROMWELL was born in Baltimore, Maryland, August 26, 1823. Having spent seven years of his boyhood in Ohio, he went to Illinois in 1836, and came to the bar in 1853. He was subsequently an editor, Judge of a County Court, and Presidential Elector.
"Captain Starkweather from Province Town is at father's wharf," she said, "and I had half a mind to tell him not to take any passengers back to Province Town, for father says he will start back when the tide serves very early to-morrow morning." Mr. Nelson hurried away to the wharves, and Anne and Rose went up to the attic for Anne's book.
She has wanted to know several times if I saw John Starkweather drive by: "the finest span of horses in this country," she says, and "did you see his daughter?" Much other information concerning the Starkweather household, culinary and otherwise, is current among our hills. We know accurately the number of Mr.
I am afraid you will be starved if I let you sleep any longer. It is half-past one o'clock; and a friend of yours has come to lunch with us." A friend of mine? What friends had I? My husband was far away; and my uncle Starkweather had given me up in despair. "Who is it?" I cried out from my bed, through the door. "Major Fitz-David," Benjamin answered, by the same medium. I sprang out of bed.
Mix. "I'm so conscious of the what shall I say? of a woman's disadvantage in a business interview. But in your case, Miss Starkweather, when your executive ability is so well known and so universally praised " She nodded, and took it without discount, but she wasn't distracted from her purpose. "I hope it's convenient for you to pay it, Mr. Mix." "If it weren't convenient," said Mr.
He is still in the vigor of life going on as usual with his contracts. In 1838, Mr. Sims married Miss Fosburgh, of Onondaga Co., N. Y.; of the marriage three children were born, Mrs. Sloane of Buffalo, Mrs. Evatt of Cleveland, deceased, and Mrs. Wm. Starkweather of Cleveland. Joseph Perkins.
It was not unnatural that at this juncture John Baird's eyes should wander across the room to where Miss Amory Starkweather sat, but it was a coincidence that as his eye fell upon her she should meet it with a gesture which called him to her side. "It seems that Miss Amory wishes to speak to me," he said to his companions.
Anyway, I am grateful to him for using his riches so much to my advantage. On fine mornings John Starkweather sometimes comes out in his slippers, bare-headed, his white vest gleaming in the sunshine, and walks slowly around his garden. Charles Baxter says that on these occasions he is asking his gardener the names of the vegetables.
"At a time like this?" I shut my eyes for a moment, too sick at heart to resent his manner. I could feel, more than see, that Sis was signaling him frantically. I moistened my lips and answered him, bitterly. "He is in the Starkweather Hospital for the insane." When the red-haired man spoke again the growl was quite gone from his voice. "And your home is where?"
"Uncle John, you're a peach! I'll break rock on the streets if you say so! You're a peach!" "Well," said Mr. Starkweather, uncomfortably. "If everybody else's goin' to bawl, I guess it'll have to be contagious.... Only when you get back, you're both goin' to pay the piper. I'm goin' to make Henry earn his salt, whether he's got it in him or not; I'm goin' to make him crawl.
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