Law business began in Edgerton with the arrival of attorney J. P. (Towne).

The evidence

• “Burdick built one on the site Phoenix Hall now occupies. It appears that with the scarcity of medicine, doctors and nurses, our pioneers were not only healthy, but peaceable, for there was not much doing in the law business until September, 1858, when our honored citizen, J. P.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/31-smaller-cities-villages-towns.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 151 / book p. 659

  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