Captain John P. Houston came to Beloit (his family following in 1838).

The evidence

• “In 1829 he had built a bridge and made that his business. In 1837 this Captain John P. Houston came to Beloit and was followed the next year by his wife and their infant son, then one year old, the John E.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34a-biographical-1.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 299 / book p. 798

  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.

  Grade A: Found on a page of one of our sources