Charles Stevens and family arrived at Janesville and commenced keeping a hotel in Janes' tavern.

The evidence

• “Charles Stevens and family arrived in the spring of 1837, rented the tavern of Janes and commenced keeping a hotel there. Janes put up a shanty on Main street, where the McKey or Parker Pen building now is.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/26-history-of-janesville.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 15 / book p. 530

  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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