Born ‎6 Jun 1894 Bangor, Pope County, Minnesota, died ‎20 Apr 1962 Glenwood, Pope County, Minnesota Event Description: St. Donatus Catholic Cemetery, Brooten‎, age 67 years, buried ‎23 Apr 1962 Brooten, Stearns County, Minnesota, ‎1st marriage to: Elisabeth I "Alice" Sandvig, ‎2nd marriage to: Jennnie Frieda Buss Tellinghusen
In the University of Minnesota archives, Walter Library, is the book Students Enrolled in the School of Agriculture, 1888-1935, is listed William Arthur Rooney of Brooten. He attended in 1913 but did not graduate.

The 1940 census shows William as single. He died of Leukemia.