10 Facts About Samuel Starkweather

Samuel Starkweather was the seventh mayor of Cleveland, Ohio from 1844 to 1845 and the fifteenth mayor of Cleveland from 1857 to 1858.

Samuel Starkweather graduated from Brown College in 1822, tutored there until 1824, and then left to study law in Windham, Connecticut.

Samuel Starkweather was admitted to the bar in Columbus in 1826.

Samuel Starkweather moved to Cleveland soon after and joined the Cleveland Grays in 1837, where he took a prominent position in Cleveland politics.

Samuel Starkweather was elected mayor in 1844, won reelection in 1845, and again in 1857 for a 2-year term.

Samuel Starkweather was the first judge of the Cuyahoga Court of Common Pleas elected under the new Constitution and served a 5-year term.

Samuel Starkweather promoted railroads in Cleveland and helped establish the Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad.

Samuel Starkweather was collector of the ports of Cleveland, and built a lighthouse of which he was superintendent in 1831.

Samuel Starkweather built a lighthouse on Turtle Island, Lake Erie, Port Clinton OH in 1832 for which the US Government paid him $1,068.43.

Samuel Starkweather built or established a marine hospital on which the US Treasury paid him $147.17.