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Major General William Starke Rosecrans
by Polly Horn
Preface
Without The Edge of Glory by William M. Lamers and the endless information provided by Thomas Wolke, this would have been a very shallow article about Rosecrans. David Moore also joined our team of researchers (his biography: William S. Rosecrans and the Union Victory was published by McFarland in 2014). Because of their research implemented by my own digging into the past, I feel I have come to know this man who died over a century ago. His life was so much more than a few years of the Civil War. Hopefully when you understand the man known as General William Starke Rosecrans, you will feel as we do that it is time to move him from the edge of glory to the glory he deserves. ---Polly Horn
William Starke Rosecrans was born in Kingston Township September 6, 1819. His paternal ancestors came from Amsterdam and settled around New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The name was originally spelled Rosenkrants which meant Crown or Wreath of Roses. In the book, The Anna
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William Starke Rosecrans was born in Kingston Township September 6, 1819. His paternal ancestors came from Amsterdam and settled near Wilkesbarre, PA. The name was originally spelled Rosenkranz which meant Crown or Wreath of Roses.
William's grandfather Dr. Daniel Rosecrans married Catherine Cole in 1760 and after her death, Truthful Wilcox. He served as a Captain in a Goshen, NY, 6th Company regiment.
In 1809 John Rosecrans (his four sons, Abraham, Jacob, Isaac and John Jr.) and Dr. Daniel Rosecrans, his wife Thankful, and his four sons, Nathaniel, Jacob, Perlemas and Crandall, settled along the Little Walnut Creek in Kingston Township. Dr. Rosecrans became Kingston's first Justice of the Peace. In 1813 he moved south on Taylor Run.
William's father Crandall Rosecrans and his wife Jemima Hopkins (relative to Stephen Hopkins who signed the declaration of independence) lived on 160 acres next to Dr. Daniel's farm on Taylor Run. Their first son, Chauncey, born in 1817 died in infancy. William was born in 1819. It is said his father had been an admirer of General John Stark and hence his middle name. However, the Stark families were prominent neighbors in Kingston and Porter Town