Mr. Barlass married Miss Jane McArthur December 26, 1851.

The evidence

• “He has never sought office, and has always been in hearty sympathy with everything tending to the betterment of his community. In religious faith he is a Presbyterian, On December 26, 1851, Mr. Barlass married Miss Jane McArthur, who was born in Scotland and came to this country in 1844 with her parents, who settled and lived the remainder of their lives in Eock county.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34c-biographical-3.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 470 / book p. 958

  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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