Once Upon a House

Fall 1854

Almeron Eager came to Rock County and bought eighty acres in the town of Union

Rock CountyGrade A · 1 independent source

The evidence

  • “Almeron Eager was reared on the Oneida county farm and obtained his education in the district school. He came to Rock county, Wisconsin, in the fall of 1854 and bought eighty acres in the town of Union, which he improved and afterwards sold. He then purchased a tract of 200 acres lying two and a half miles east of Evansville, and in partnership with W.”

    1908-brown-rock-county/34d-biographical-4.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 514 / book p. 1000

    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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