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COUNTY FORMATION

Rooks County was organized in 1867 from the Kirwin Land District and was the only county in Kansas named after a private. The County seat is in Stockton. The County was named in memory of Private John Calvin Rooks of Company I, 11th Kansas Infantry, who died December 11, 1862, at Fayetteville, Arkansas, of wounds received in the battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas on December 7, 1862. He was born in 1835 in Pennsylvania to John L. and Delilah Rooks. They came to the Weller County, Kansas Territory about 1858.

Stockton is the county seat.