A settler came to Wisconsin, took up sixty-eight acres of government wild land in what is now Magnolia Township, and built the third log house in that neighborhood.

The evidence

• “fall of 1845, h"e came to Wisconsin, and took up sixty-eight acres of Government wild land, in what is now Magnolia Township, Rock Co., and built the third log house in this neighborhood. He now owi s 120 acres of land, and raises all kinds of grain and stock.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/33-bios-magnolia.md, PDF p. 877 / book p. 881

  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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