"E. E. Starr Was Once Treasurer of the Indian Nation
VINITA: E. E. Starr, ex-treasurer of the Cherokee nation, is dead at his home in Tahlequah. Death was due to blood poison, caused by a carbuncle. Mr. Starr was one-eighth Cherokee and was born in Rusk county, Tex., in 1848. He came with his father directly to the Cherokee nation at the close of the civil war and settled near Stillwell, I. T., where he was engaged for many years selling general merchandise. Successful in business, he stood as a man of unimpeachable integrity and the Cherokee nation elected him treasurer. While he held this office he made the distribution of $6,640,000 to the Cherokees, paying each citizen by blood $265.70. He was elected senator from Flint district for one term."
Source: The Labor Signal, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Territory, Thursday, October 12, 1905; Pg. 2
"E. E. Starr Was Once Treasurer of the Indian Nation
VINITA: E. E. Starr, ex-treasurer of the Cherokee nation, is dead at his home in Tahlequah. Death was due to blood poison, caused by a carbuncle. Mr. Starr was one-eighth Cherokee and was born in Rusk county, Tex., in 1848. He came with his father directly to the Cherokee nation at the close of the civil war and settled near Stillwell, I. T., where he was engaged for many years selling general merchandise. Successful in business, he stood as a man of unimpeachable integrity and the Cherokee nation elected him treasurer. While he held this office he made the distribution of $6,640,000 to the Cherokees, paying each citizen by blood $265.70. He was elected senator from Flint district for one term."
Source: The Labor Signal, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Territory, Thursday, October 12, 1905; Pg. 2
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