This is a transcription of the Elizabeth Page Stark of Manchester, NH biography from New Hampshire Women: A Collection of Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Daughters and Residents of the Granite State, Who are Worthy Representatives of their Sex in the Various Walks and Conditions of Life, The New Hampshire Publishing Co., Concord, NH, 1895, page 105.
Elizabeth Page Stark
IN the annals of American patriotism, no name shines more brightly than that of New Hampshire’s gallant son, John Stark, and among the representative women of the Granite State today there is none more worthy of regard than Elizabeth Page Stark, great-granddaughter of the hero of Bunker Hill and Bennington, who was born and has ever lived on the old Stark homestead in Manchester, over-looking the valley of the Merrimack, where five generations have lived and died whose remains now repose in the family burial place in “Stark Park” close at hand. Here was the dwelling-place of the brave old soldier, of his son, John Stark, 2d, his grandson, John Stark, 3d, father of Miss Stark, whose wife was Sarah Fletcher Pollard, daughter of Thomas Pollard, all now passed “over the river;” and here the great-granddaughter now presides, and has for years past, with true womanly dignity in this old mansion, which must ever be regarded as one of the sacred shrines of American liberty, filled as it is with relics and mementoes of the Revolutionary period and of him who was a leader in the “days that tried men’s souls.” Miss Stark is a member of Grace Episcopal Church of Manchester. She is also a member of the King’s Daughters, of the Woman’s Relief Corps, the N. H. Historical Society, the Colonial Dames, and vice-president of the society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, in all of which organizations she takes a deep interest. She greets with cordial welcome all who care to visit her home and its historic treasures, and worthily wears the honored name of Stark.