Isaac Roop
Isaac Newton Roop was a United States politician, pioneer, and a lifelong member of the Whig party. In 1859, he was the first elected governor of the newly proposed Nevada Territory.
Roop was born in Carroll County, Maryland. He married his tutor, Nancy Gardner, on December 24, 1840. He was devastated by her loss ten years later when she died of typhoid fever on June 20, 1850, and became widowed with two sons, John and Isaiah, as well as a daughter Susan. Possibly motivated by grief or desperation, he pulled up stakes for California that same year and tried to rebuild his life.
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