Blodgett purchased the Meeker claim and soon built a saw mill; the first importation was a distillery.

The evidence

• “Sometime in the year 1837 Blodgett purchased the Meeker. claim, and soon built a saw mill. The first importation was a distillery.”

  1856-history-of-rock-county/20-turtle.md, PDF p. 148 / book p. 132

  Guernsey, Orrin, and Josiah F. Willard, editors. History of Rock County, and Transactions of the Rock County Agricultural Society and Mechanics' Institute. Janesville, Wis.: William M. Doty & Brother, 1856. Cornell University Library via the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/cu31924028871593.

  Grade A: Found on a page of one of our sources