City: Lawrenceburg
STARNES, Daniel W., lawyer; born Fountain county, Ind., Oct. 21, 1842; French-German descent; son of Henry and Katharine (Myers) STARNES; father’s occupation farmer; educated at Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Ind.; served in Tenth Ind. Vol. Infantry, and Indiana Legion through civil war, with rank of second lieutenant, and first lieutenant-major; after the war he studied law in the office of Stilwell & Wood, Covington, Ind.; admitted to bar 1868; married Mary E. MILLER in 1868; member of Masons, Knights of Pythias; Republican; moved from Ind. to Tenn. in 1885; Republican nominee for state Senate, Twenty-second Sen. Dist., Tenn., in 1896; presidential elector on McKinley and Roosevelt ticket in 1900; nominee for judge of Supreme Court for Middle Division of Tenn., on Republican ticket in 1902; delegate to Republican National Convention, 1904; deputy U. S. marshal in 1870; postmaster at Lawrenceburg, Tenn., 1905, appointed by President ROOSEVELT; re-appointed in 1910 by President TAFT; his name is among the 310 Ind. civil war soldiers on the Bronze tablet unveiled at Crawfordsville, Ind., in 1904, and which contains names of many prominent Ind. civil war veterans; senior member of the law firm of Starnes & Crews; owns a farm, and is stockholder in First National Bank, Lawrenceburg, Tenn.; member of Presbyterian church.
