A family settled on a farm near Milton.

The evidence

• “Our subject's parents were married in 1849 at Leonardsville, New York. In 1856 they settled on a farm near Milton, Wis., but in 1876 retired from the farm and moved into the village, where the father died August 8, 1879. The mother now lives with her son, our subject.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34b-biographical-2.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 371 / book p. 866

  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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