1855
Marriages and family events dated only to 1855: marriage of Miss Mary Edgar of Scotland ; admitted to the bar and marriage in Rochester, N. Y. ; admission to practice in New Jersey ; admission to the bar in Rochester ; marriage of Jure Gunale in Janesville ; marriage in Janesville of a La Prairie settler ; marriage of Martha B. Langworthy ; death of a mother at age 82 ; Mrs. Martin died at Beloit ; the Carter family: father removed to Johnstown and mother died ; Alderman of the Fourth Ward for 1855 ; school commissioner and clerk of schools ; supervisor until 1855 ; school teaching in Richland county 1855 ; mercantile business at Jefferson 1855 ; Jacob and Margaret Walrath married January 1, 1855 ; a marriage Jan. 3, 1855 ; a tax collector in New Hampshire ; clerking at Niagara Falls 1853–55 ; ticket clerk in Chicago 1855 .
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“Janesville ; came to Wisconsin in 1850, then removed to Kentucky, living there one year ; returned to Wisconsin, locating on land he now occupies, sixty-four acres; was born in 1829, in Scotland, near city of Glasgow. Married, in 1855, Miss Mary Edgar, of Scotland ; she was born in 1831 ; have seven children, four boys and three girls — John, WUU iam, Robert, Arthur, Ellen, Jannette and Mary. Presbyterians.”
1879-history-of-rock-county/17-bios-janesville.md, PDF p. 704 / book p. 708
Butterfield, C. W., et al. The History of Rock County, Wisconsin: its early settlement, growth, development, resources, etc. Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1879. Cornell University Library via the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/cu31924028871585.
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