1818.
JAMES STARR HUGGINS, son of Samuel and Martha D. (Starr)
Huggins, was born in New Haven, Conn., May 1st, 1799.
After some eighteen months spent in teaching in North Carolina,
he began the study of law with Seth P. Staples, Esq., of New
Haven, and subsequently completed his preparation in the office of
Ludlow Ogden, Esq., of N Y. city, where he was admitted to the
bar. He entered into partnership with Mr. Ogden, and afterwards
continued in practice by himself until the time of his death. He
was especially trusted in the administration of estates and in the
drawing of wills.
In the spring of the year 1872 he suffered from a severe attack
of pneumonia, after which he never recovered his full strength.
About the first of September, he was rendered unconscious by
paralysis of the bram, and he died at his residence on Sept. 4th.
He married, about May, 1839, Helen, daughter of Mr. Richard
Arden, of Putnam County, N. Y., who died a few years before
him. Of their seven children, one son and two daughters are still
living
