A Janesville man was inaugurated as secretary of state

The evidence

• “On July 4, 1854, the first daily paper in Janesville was issued by the Janesville "Gazette," Levi Alden and Charles Holt, proprietors. Owing to insufficient patronage it was determined later in the year to suspend publication of the daily, and the paper was not issued as a daily from October 7, 1854, to March, 1857, In 1854 Alex T. Gray, a Janesville man, was inaugurated as secretary of state.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/26-history-of-janesville.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 34 / book p. 548

  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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