James Freeland Starr was my grandfather. The story on his name goes something like this. While my great grandmother was pregnant with James Freeland, her doctor (John T. Freeland, M.D.)told her if it was a boy and she named it after him he would buy a set of clothes for him. Well, the good doctor reneged on the deal, and when my grandfather learned about it, it made him angry. So when he got old enough to legally change his name he changed it to "James Freed Starr, Sr.", my father was Jr..