Starkey, Charles T.

Submitted by Mike Miller

Starkey, Charles T., lawyer, was born in New Orleans, Dec. 10, 1886, and is a son of Theodore and Julia (Cain) Starkey. His parents were born in New Orleans, and his paternal grandfather, Charles Starkey, was born in Lewiston, Me., and came of an old family of New England. Charles T. Starkey was reared in New Orleans, and in the public schools received his preliminary education. At the age of 11 years he left school and became a messenger boy for the Western Union Telegraph Co., for which corporation he later became bookkeeper, and still later an operator, and finally manager of one of the company's branch offices in New Orleans, resigning the last named position in 1905. Mr. Starkey matriculated at the law department of Tulane university Oct., 1905, and graduated in May, 1907. He was licensed to practice law Dec. 16, 1907. He is also a notary public, and besides the practice of law deals in real estate. Mr. Starkey was married April 30, 1912, to Miss Stella Lathrop, daughter of Elias Lane Lathrop, and Marie Louise (Piagget) Lathrop. Mr. Lathrop is a prominent sugar planter of Plaquemines parish. Mr. Starkey has forged his own way to success in his profession and business; educated himself and made his own way from early youth, and is deserving of much credit for achieving so well under the circumstances against which he has battled.

Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), p. 415. Edited by Alcée Fortier, Lit.D. Published in 1914, by Century Historical Association.