A farmer sold his Michigan farm and moved to Rock county, buying a quarter section in Magnolia township and building a log cabin.

The evidence

• “going to Orleans county, New York, he engaged in farming on shares, and also operated a threshing machine ; here he met and on September 10, 1842, married Miss Mary Letts, and a little later moved to Calhoun county, Michigan, where in 1843 he purchased a farm. This he sold in 1844, and moved to Kock county, Wisconsin and bought a quarter section of wild land in sections 22 and 27, Magnolia township, and built on it a log cabin and made a home for himself and family, devoting his time to cultivating and improving his land. He was a hard worker and thrifty, and prospered in his work with the increasing responsibilities of a growing family.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34e-biographical-5.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 558 / book p. 1042

  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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