James W. Strong began teaching in the brick school house (Union School No. 1) in Beloit.

The evidence

• “January 12, 1852, James W. Strong began teaching in that brick school house, associated with Mrs.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/11-beloit-schools.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 271 / book p. 248

  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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