A Clinton-area farmer removed to Janesville, where he remained until 1860.

The evidence

• “had pte-empted Government land ; he engaged in improving and cultivating the same, and continued to farm this until 1855 or 1856, when he removed to town of Center, Rock Co., where he was engaged in farming until 1859, when he removed to Janesville, where he remained until 1860 ; he returned to Clinton Junction after a visit to his native State ; in 1865, he again returned to Clinton Junction, where he died in April, 1877 ; Martin R. remained on his father's farm until 1869, when he removed to Evansville, where he engaged in livery business, and, in 1873, he also engaged in keeping hotel, the Spencer House, which he continued for two or three years, when he gave up hotel keeping, until 1877, when he sold out his livery business and purchased the hotel he had formerly kept, which he refitted and extended and conducted under the original name of the Spencer House, until the spring of 1879, when he changed the name to that of the Central House.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/30-bios-union.md, PDF p. 859 / book p. 863

  Butterfield, C. W., et al. The History of Rock County, Wisconsin: its early settlement, growth, development, resources, etc. Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1879. Cornell University Library via the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/cu31924028871585.

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