A man came to Newark Township.

The evidence

• “P. 0. Beloit; born in Yorkshire, England, in 1826 ; came to America and located in Chicago in 1847, where he remained one year, and then went to" Rockford, thence to Rockton and back to Chicago, where he lived till 1857 ; then came to Newark. He owned eighty acres in Sec. 34, that he bought some years previously, and when he came to Newark, lived in a log house that he rented until he built a frame residence.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/19-bios-newark.md, PDF p. 769 / book p. 773

  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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