Samuel Gookins

Samuel Barnes Gookins (born Rupert, Vermont, May 30, 1809; died Terre Haute, Indiana, June 14, 1880) was an American journalist, lawyer, politician, and judge of the Supreme Court of Indiana.
Early life
Gookins was the youngest of ten children. In 1812 his parents William and Rhoda Gookins moved with most of their children to Rodman, New York, near the eastern end of Lake Ontario. Gookins' father died two years later. In 1823 Gookins' mother took him and an older brother west to settle about two miles outside of Terre Haute, Indiana, where other members of the family had settled three years earlier.
In July 1825 Gookins' mother died, and he was sent to live first with the family of Captain Daniel Stringham (father of Admiral Silas Stringham) and later with several of his older siblings. In 1826 he was apprenticed to John Osborn, the editor of the Western Register newspaper in Terre Haute. After completing his apprenticeship in 1830, he moved...