Samuel Rorer

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c1810

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1880-07-06

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"Samuel Rorer" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00002668, (accessed December 21, 2024).

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Hopkins County, Kentucky, farmer and public servant. Virginia native. Married to Josephine Rorer. Postmaster in Hopkins County, Kentucky, in 1842. Postmaster in Hopkins County in 1850. Farmer in Hopkins County in 1850. Examiner for Hopkins County in 1865. Member of the Masonic Order at Madisonville Lodge, No. 143.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 1, p. 99B.
"Majority and Minority Reports in the Contested Election Case of Morton against Gregory, made to the House or Representatives, December 18, 1865," Legislative Document Series, No. 13, (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 47.
Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971 Records of the Post Office Department, NARA Series M841, RG 28, Hopkins County, Kentucky, vol. 12A, p. 154.
Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Kentucky, at the Grand Annual Communication, in the City of Louisville (Frankfort, Ky.: Frankfort Commonwealth, 1867), 128.
"Samuel Rorer (unknown-July 6, 1880)," Find A Grave, Memorial #120366184, accessed August 30, 2018, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/120366184.

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