History of Northern California
GEORGE F. STARR
Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California,
Chicago, Lewis Publ. Co., 1891

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Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California, p314,315

GEORGE F. STARR, deceased, formerly a fruit-grower of Sutter County, was 
born September 14, 1838, in Greenfield Township, Huron County, Ohio, a 
son of Orange and Mercy (Dubois) Starr, pioneers of Ohio.  His father, a 
native of New York State, was a farmer most of his days.  His mother was 
a native of Tennessee.  January 14, 1853, he sailed from the port of New 
York for California, and landed at San Francisco with only $1.50.  He went 
up to Sacramento on the steamer Antelope, and directly went out to 
McDowell Hill, near Sacramento, where his brother was keeping a hotel.  
He worked at mining three days, at $5 a day, and then followed mining on 
his own account for six months.  In the spring he and his brother began 
teaming from Sacramento to different points, being the first teamsters to 
drive into Downieville.  This business they followed for three years, and 
then George F., our present subject, ran for eighteen months the Oakland 
Hotel in Sacramento, on K street, between Eighth and Ninth; next he 
worked for his brother in the Buckeye Mills in Sutter County for two 
months; and at length he bought a ranch six miles south of Yuba City, where 
he resided until 1877.  Then he sold that place, lived three years at Santa 
Rosa, engaged in real-estate business, and finally, in 1880, he bought the 
ranch where he recently died, containing 225 acres, and situated on the 
Live Oak Road, a mile and a half north of Yuba City.  There are fifty-eight 
acres in fruit trees and twenty in vines.  He was a member of the orders of 
Chosen Friends and of the Patrons of Husbandry, and had also been a 
member of the Methodist Church for fifteen years.  He died December 15, 
1890, and was buried in the Yuba City Cemetery.  He was an exemplary citizen.
He was married in Sutter County, March 23, 1863, to Miss E. J. Butler, a native 
of Ohio, and they have four children:  Carrie B., now the wife of Arthur Barr; 
Eddie B., Roy E and Gladys.  Three children are dead - Augustus, Orange and 
Harry - and buried in Yuba City Cemetery.