He married Maggie A. Cochran, daughter of Dennis Cochran (he had been admitted to practice in all New Jersey courts in the fall of 1855).

The evidence

• “J., about four years, and a portion of the time with the Hon. Martin Ryerson, since one of the Circuit and Supreme Court Judges of that State, he was, in the fall of 1855, admitted to practice in all its courts. On the 14th day of November, 1855, he married Maggie A. Cochran, the beautiful and accomplished daughter of Dennis Cochran, with whom he lived in constant and undisturbed felicity until the 22d day of December, 1878, when she was called from her earthly home and friends, to whom she was tenderly attached, to the. everlasting abodes ot the blessed, to receive the reward of a pure, charitable and unostentatious Christian life.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/17-bios-janesville.md, PDF p. 727

  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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