A sketch's subject was acting Chairman of the town board (about 1859).

The evidence

• “Mr. B. is a Republican of the old Whig school ; has served as Assessor seven or eight terms; was Supervisor during the rebellion, and was acting Chairman about 1859; has also been Justice of the Peace a number of terms. The family attend the Seventh-Day Baptist Church, Milton Junction.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/21-bios-lima.md, PDF p. 785

  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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