February 26, 1823 — A father of a Janesville settler was born at Stockbridge, Oneida county, N. Y.

The evidence

• “The father was born at Stockbridge, Oneida county, N. Y., on February 26, 1823, and when a boy came West with his parents. He went to California at the time of the gold craze in 1849, but returned after three years and settled at the then village of Janesville.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34d-biographical-4.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 521 / book p. 1007

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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