A family arrived in Rock County and settled on land purchased from Benjamin Riddle.

The evidence

• “He was prosperous in his business affairs and at the time of his decease in 1869 left an estate of $500,000. During his lifetime he made several trips to Rock county, Wisconsin, for the purpose of selecting homes for his children, and thus located six of them within a radius of ten miles ; one of these trips was made in the early '50s with our subject 's father, who in 1856 brought his family, arriving in Rock county on April 6, and settled on the land now owned by our subject, purchasing it from Benjamin Riddle. Here the father made his home and reared his family and passed the remainder of his life.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34c-biographical-3.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 479 / book p. 966

  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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