Mr. McGavock was born in County Antrim, Ireland.

The evidence

• “Mr. McGavock was born in County Antrim, Ireland, January 26, 1828. His parents, Alexander and Sarah McGavock, with their family of four sons and two daughters, emigrated to the United States in 1847, settling at Fox Lake, 111.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34e-biographical-5.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 604 / book p. 1088

  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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