"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
BROWN TOWNSHIP AND MOORESVILLE
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CAPT. SAMUEL M. ROOKER, citizen of Mooresville, Ind., is the third son of
Jesse S. and Candace L. (Conduitt) Rooker, natives of Tennessee, and
descendants from the German and the French, respectively. He was born at
Mooresville May 22, 1824. He was trained to farm life, and educated at the
public schools. His parents came into Morgan County in the year 1816, and
here spent the remainder of their years, his father dying in 1843, at the
age of forty-nine years, and has mother ten years earlier, at the age of
thirty-eight years. He was married, February 24, 1844, to Nancy McNeff, by
whom he had born to him six children--Mary Candace (deceased), Marion Howard
(deceased), Kansas, Adalide, Otto E. and Mattie B. August 13, 1862, he
entered the service of the United States as Captain of Company E, Twelfth
Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and five months thereafter was compelled to
resign on account of physical disability. Through out but a short time, he
saw considerable real service, having participated in the battle of
Richmond, Ky., and any number of skirmishes. Returning from the war, he
engaged in the mercantile business at Mooresville, from which he retired in
about a year, and built the Magnolia Mills, and conducted them twelve or
thirteen years. He has bought and sold over 4,500 acres of valuable lands
in Brown Township; dealt extensively in grain, and been an active business
man generally. The panic of 1875-76 cost him over $20,000, and in November,
1881, his residence in Mooresville was completely destroyed by fire. So,
with all, Capt. Rooker has had his share of the ups and downs of life, and
still rides the waves. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church;
high up in the order of Odd Fellows; a Democrat in politics; a farmer by
occupation, and takes life easy in his new splendid residence, into which he
has just moved.
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