The Janesville Common Council purchased two second-class Button hand engines (delivered in June).

The evidence

• “Farwell, Treasurer. In the winter of 1855, the Common Council purchased two second-class Button hand engines, which were delivered to the city in June of the same year. No. 1 engine took the west side of the river and No. 2 the east side.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/14-rock-county-ch08-janesville.md, PDF p. 569 / book p. 573

  Butterfield, C. W., et al. The History of Rock County, Wisconsin: its early settlement, growth, development, resources, etc. Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1879. Cornell University Library via the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/cu31924028871585.

  Grade A: Found on a page of one of our sources