Numerous individuals later connected to Rock County were born in 1820 without a recorded day: a Janesville farmer in Orange Co., New York ; a farmer in Wyoming Co., near Buffalo, New York ; physician A. Patterson in Ellisburg, Jefferson Co., New York ; an Afton-area resident in Springfield, Otsego Co., New York ; a Janesville resident born in New York ; a Milton Junction resident in Henniker, Merrimack Co., New Hampshire ; an Edgerton-area resident in Rensselaer Co., New York ; a Fulton resident in Sullivan Co., New York ; a resident born at Marcellus, Onondaga Co., New York ; two Footville-area masons in Trumbull Co., Ohio ; a Brodhead-area resident in New York ; an Orford-area resident in New York ; and Knud Chrisbinusen in Vegli, Norway (approximately).

The evidence

• “Janesville; born in Orange Co., N. Y., in 1820; came to Wisconsin in 1864, and located on present homestead ; owns 880 acres, 650 under cultivation ; is one of the most extensive farmers and stock -raisers in the county. Married Miss Jane E.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/17-bios-janesville.md, PDF p. 699

  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.

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• “Knud Chrisbinusen was born in Vegli, Norway, about the year 1820, and died in the town of Newark, Rock county. Wis., some twenty-five years ago.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/18-scandinavians.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 484 / book p. 449

  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.

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