Michael Rooney is in the 1870 U.S. census of Ward 2, St. Anthony, city of Minneapolis as a laborer.…

Shared note	Michael Rooney is in the 1870 U.S. census of Ward 2, St. Anthony, city of Minneapolis as a laborer. He was 23 - b. about 1847 - in Canada. Alongside him are his sister "Kate," married to William Martin and their two kids and William's brother John, brother Michael, age 23, and perhaps a cousin, Patrick Killeen, age 40, born in Ireland and probably a Civil War soldier, born in Galway according to those records. Mike never married. He was living with his sister and brother-in-law William Martin and family in the 1875 census of Stearns County, Minnesota. After the locusts destroyed the crops, he went hunting buffalo in Montana. He lived in Billings for years. Ambrose Rooney said they used to call him "sheep mountain Mike." While he was gone he lent his farm to his sister Catherine and brother-in-law William Martin. He spent his retirement with his brother William in Padua. Cause of death: Auricular fibrillation, cardiac decongestion, prostate hypertrophy. Originally published August 1998, Padua Cemetery, by Ginny Walz Borgerding Michael J. Rooney was born in Canada, on February 2, 1847 to John and Mary (McCool) Rooney. He was the third of twelve children. Michael never married and would travel to Montana, with his brothers, to trap furs and bring them back to Minnesota to sell. On one such trip, they were stopped by Indians, givings up their bounty to save their scalps. His Minnesota family nicknamed him "Sheep Mountain Mike" because of his many Montana trips. Michael homesteaded a farm two miles south of Padua where his sister Catharine and family first stayed, and then rented the farm from Michael. Michael enjoyed spending time in Padua with his brother WIlliam, and loved to cut wood from the grove around William's farm. He kept a large stock pile of wood on William's farm. Michael died on January 16, 1932 and is buried by his brother William and William's wife Helena Rooney. His parents, brothers and sisters Catharine Martin, James, Thomas T., Mary Egan and Elizabeth Egan are also buried in Padua.

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Michael Rooney is in the 1870 U.S. census of Ward 2, St. Anthony, city of Minneapolis as a laborer. He was 23 - b. about 1847 - in Canada. Alongside him are his sister "Kate," married to William Martin and their two kids and William's brother John, brother Michael, age 23, and perhaps a cousin, Patrick Killeen, age 40, born in Ireland and probably a Civil War soldier, born in Galway according to those records.

Mike never married. He was living with his sister and brother-in-law William Martin and family in the 1875 census of Stearns County, Minnesota.

After the locusts destroyed the crops, he went hunting buffalo in Montana. He lived in Billings for years. Ambrose Rooney said they used to call him "sheep mountain Mike." While he was gone he lent his farm to his sister Catherine and brother-in-law William Martin. He spent his retirement with his brother William in Padua. Cause of death: Auricular fibrillation, cardiac decongestion, prostate hypertrophy.

Originally published August 1998, Padua Cemetery, by Ginny Walz Borgerding

Michael J. Rooney was born in Canada, on February 2, 1847 to John and Mary (McCool) Rooney. He was the third of twelve children. Michael never married and would travel to Montana, with his brothers, to trap furs and bring them back to Minnesota to sell. On one such trip, they were stopped by Indians, givings up their bounty to save their scalps. His Minnesota family nicknamed him "Sheep Mountain Mike" because of his many Montana trips.

Michael homesteaded a farm two miles south of Padua where his sister Catharine and family first stayed, and then rented the farm from Michael. Michael enjoyed spending time in Padua with his brother WIlliam, and loved to cut wood from the grove around William's farm. He kept a large stock pile of wood on William's farm.

Michael died on January 16, 1932 and is buried by his brother William and William's wife Helena Rooney. His parents, brothers and sisters Catharine Martin, James, Thomas T., Mary Egan and Elizabeth Egan are also buried in Padua.

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Michael J Rooney Sheep Mountain Mike or Grey Mike … Father: John Rooney Mother: Mary McCool				February 16, 1847	177	Wakefield Township, Outaouais, Quebec, Canada	0	January 16, 1932	92	84	Raymond Township, Stearns County, Minnesota	Saturday, April 1, 2023 2:18 PM	M	YES	Y100
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