Freestone County, Texas
Biographies 



The Physicians and Surgeons of the United States
by William Biddle Atkinson - 1878 

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STARLEY, WILLIAM FRANKLIN,
  Mexia, Texas was born in Nacogdoches co., Texas, Sept. 4th, 1843.  Having 
received a common school education, he took his first course of medical lectures
at the med. dep't of the univ. of La., and his second at Long Island coll. hosp.,
Brooklyn, N. Y., from which he graduated in June, 1871.  He settled first in 
Fairfield, Freestone co., Texas, whence he moved,  April, 1873, to Mexia, 
Limestone co., going thence, May, 1876, to Corsicana, Navarro co., returning,
May, 1877, to Mexia.  He makes a speciality of gynaecology.  He is a member of
the Limestone co., med. soc.  In the civil war he served as a private in the
Confederate army.  He married Dec 13th, 1871.