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William Starke Rosecrans (Cincinnati, Ohio, engineer, businessman, and soldier )

b. 1819-09-06 d. 1898-03-11

Cincinnati, Ohio, engineer, businessman, and soldier. Kingston, Ohio, native. Married to Anna Eliza Hegeman Rosecrans. Father of Aaron Rosecrans, Mary Rosecrans, Elizabeth Rosecrans, and Anna Rosecrans. Graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1842. Assistant professor at the United States Military Academy from 1843 to 1847. Served in the Army Engineer Corps as second lieutenant and first lieutenant from 1842 to 1843 and from 1847 to 1854. Architect, civil engineer, and businessman in Cincinnati from 1854. Coal oil merchant in Cincinnati in 1860. Served in the 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as colonel in May 1861. Served in U.S. Army as brigadier general and major general from May 1861 to March 28, 1867.

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Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Ohio, Hamilton County, Cincinnati, Ward 15, p. 675.

Joseph Taggart, Biographical Sketches of the Eminent American Patriots, (Burton Company, 1907), 270-299.

John Fiske and James Grant Wilson, ed., Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, vol. V, (New York: Appleton, 1889), 323-325.

Oscar Jewell Harvey, The Harvey Book: Giving the Genealogies of Certain Branches of the American Families...(E. B. Yordy & company, 1899), 305.

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Rosecrans, William Starke. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32209802 (November 12, 2026).

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