The Willard family left their farm south of Janesville (Mr. Willard having served as blind-asylum trustee until 1858).

The evidence

• “Mr. Willard had come here from Ohio with his family, including Frances, then seven years old, in 1846, and settled on a farm a little ways south of where the school for the blind is now located, where he lived until November, 1858. He was trustee of the blind asylum from 1852 until 1858. He was one of the members of the first legislature in 1848 and was president of the Kock County Fair Association and of the State Agricultural Society.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/26-history-of-janesville.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 29 / book p. 543

  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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