Henry F. Starbuck

[1] Henry Fletcher Starbuck was born on March 1, 1850, in Nantucket, Massachusetts, and died on August 21, 1935, at Decoto, Alameda County, California.

Leaving Boston, he relocated to New Brunswick for a short while and from there he spent several years in Chicago, Illinois, and was briefly in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

By 1894 he had established a practice in San Diego, California, where he earned a reputation as a specialist in church architecture.

After working on a church building in Fresno in 1902, he relocated to Oakland, California, where he built a flourishing practice.

While practicing in Oakland, Starbuck formed a brief partnership with William Wilde which ended after a couple of years.

[3] She was a descendant of Dr. Samuel Fuller, a passenger on the Mayflower and one of the Separatist settlers of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts.