WILLIAM L. ROOKER - Biography

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This biography appears on page 649 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

WILLIAM L. ROOKER, farmer, Sec. 29; P. O. Burlington. His father, Capt.
Joseph Rooker, was born in Whitehall, Washington Co, N. Y., in 1792;
came to Wisconsin in winter of 1837-38 to attend the land sale of
Government land, then returned to Whitehall, and in Aug., 1838, brought
his family out. He bought 650 acres in Secs. 19, 29 and 30 and also one
quarter-section in Spring Prairie, Walworth Co.; he finished a frame
residence that was partly built on the land, and occupied it as a
residence - he also built barns and fences, and otherwise improved it.
He had the reputation of being a generous, kind-hearted man, both in
Burlington and Dover Townships. He married, in Herkimer Co., N. Y., in
1810, Sabrina Turner; they had eight children, born in Herkimer Co.-
William L., James V., Daniel N., Chauncey J., Sophronia, Sabrina, Olive
and Demaris; his wife died in Burlington in 1858; he again married, in
1860, in Racine, Mrs. Minerva Taig, who now resides with her daughter,
Mrs. J. Howland, in Burlington. He died in Burlington, Oct. 3, 1864.
William L. married, in Burlington, April 3, 1834, Margaret J. Winne;
they had four children-- Frances E., Lloyd D., Sarah S., William D. Mr.
William Rooker sold his father's farm, and now owns ninety acres in Sec.
29, Burlington.