A young man became a student in the Black River Literary and Religious Institute at Watertown, New York.

The evidence

• “In the fall of 1839 he became a student in the Black River literary and religious institute, of Watertown, N. Y., where he fitted himself for the profession of teaching, in which he engaged at intervals until April, 1844, in connection with his attendance at the institute.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/32-courts-and-legal-profession.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 228 / book p. 731

  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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