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Owen Starr was one of the three Fenian prisoners that Lazette Miller Worden reports on to Augustus Henry Seward on July 17, 1872. Owen and two compatriots, William L. Thompson and Edward J. Mannix, were taken to the State Prison for their participation in the series of small raids into Canada that were conducted by US-supporters of Irish Fenians protesting the rule of Britain.

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Biography: 
Owen Starr was one of the three Fenian prisoners that Lazette Miller Worden reports on to Augustus Henry Seward on July 17, 1872. Owen and two compatriots, William L. Thompson and Edward J. Mannix, were taken to the State Prison for their participation in the series of small raids into Canada that were conducted by US-supporters of Irish Fenians protesting the rule of Britain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenian_Rising ---and--- https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DAC18700728.2.32&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1
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Newspaper Article
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Daily Alta California
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The Condemned Fenians at Auburn Prison
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July
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28
Year: 
1870
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Ancestry.com
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Source Citation The National Cemetery Administration; Marion National Cemetery, Burial Ledger, Book I, 1890-1949 Description Cemetery: Marion National Cemetery Source Information Ancestry.com. U.S., Burial Registers, Military Posts and National Cemeteries, 1862-1960 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data:Burial Ledgers. The National Cemetery Administration, Washington, D.C. (Original records transferred to NARA: Burial Registers, compiled 1867-2006, documenting the period 1831-2006. ARC ID: 5928352. Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, 1773–2007, Record Group 15. National Archives at Washington, D.C. Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Quartermaster General. (09/18/1947–08/01/1962). Burial Registers of Military Post and National Cemeteries, compiled ca. 1862–ca. 1960. ARC ID: 4478151. Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General, 1774–1985, Record Group 92. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C. Source Description See how America honors its war dead in these National and other military cemeteries.