Caleb Stark
(1759-1838)
BIRTH
December 3, 1759
PLACE
Dunbarton, New Hampshire, USA
DEATH
August 28, 1838
PLACE
Oxford Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, USA
FAMILY
FATHER
John Stark
(1728-1822)
CHILDREN
Molly Stark
(1737-1814)
HOMES
POLITICAL VIEWS
VETERANS’ RIGHTS ADVOCATE
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Caleb Stark (1759–1838) joined his father John Stark’s regiment as a teenager and fought at Bunker Hill, beginning eight years of Revolutionary service. Wounded at Saratoga, he rose to major. Afterward he became a merchant and cotton manufacturer in New Hampshire. He pressed for veterans’ pensions and criticized building monuments while promised compensation went unpaid. He died in Ohio in August 1838; sources differ on the exact day, August 26 or 28.
EARLY LIFE
Caleb Stark was born on Dec 3, 1759 in Dunbarton, New Hampshire, USA. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Caleb Stark with work or public activity as a lawyer, soldier, statesman. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Caleb Stark died on Aug 28, 1838 in Oxford Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, USA. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Caleb Stark joined his father John Stark’s regiment as a teenager and fought at Bunker Hill, beginning eight years of Revolutionary service. Wounded at Saratoga, he rose to major. Afterward he became a merchant and cotton manufacturer in New Hampshire. The available biographical record identifies Caleb Stark with work or public activity as a lawyer, soldier, statesman. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them. Caleb Stark died on Aug 28, 1838, in Oxford Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, USA. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES
Caleb Stark (1759–1838), the Revolutionary officer and son of General John Stark. The John Stark biographies concern his father. Five dedicated biographies were not identified. These editorial selections include biographies where available, with personal writings, biographical reference and related studies clearly labelled.
1. Life of General John Stark of New Hampshire — Howard Parker Moore. [Related biography of his father] Find on Amazon
2. John Stark: Maverick General — Ben Z. Rose. [Related biography of his father] Find on Amazon
3. History of the First New Hampshire Regiment in the War of the Revolution — Frederic Kidder. [Related regimental and biographical history] Find on Amazon
4. Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army During the War of the Revolution — Francis B. Heitman. [Military biographical reference] Find on Amazon
5. The Compleat Victory: Saratoga and the American Revolution — Kevin J. Weddle. [Related campaign and biographical history] Find on Amazon
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