Boss, later a farmer of Rock county, was born at Richmond, R. I.

The evidence

• “Boss, for many years a progressive and enterprising farmer of Rock county, Wisconsin, was born at Richmond, R. I., in 1828, and passed his early life there. On attaining his majority he, in company with his brother, Ashel G.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34e-biographical-5.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 581 / book p. 1065

  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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