Mr. Richardson returned to the State of New York and renewed his studies at the academy in his native place.

The evidence

• “Richardson is one of the few, and to the lesson taught by experience during that crisis, he is probably indebted for the fair share of success which has attended his business efforts through life. In the year 1840, Mr. Richardson returned to the State of New York and renewed his studies at the academy in his native place, but he was too much imbued with the Western spirit to long endure the quiet of an Eastern town, and, in the spring of 1842, he again turned his face westward”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/17-bios-janesville.md, PDF p. 715 / book p. 719

  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

  

• “In 1840 he returned to New York and renewed his studies in the academy of his native town ; but he was too much imbued with the western spirit to long content himself in the East, and consequently in the spring of 1842 he again wended his way westward and located at Milwaukee, Wis., where he secured employment as bookkeeper in one of the large commercial houses in that city. In the year 1844 he engaged in the hardware business at Racine, but not realizing his expectations in that line, he sold out in the spring of 1846 and removed to Janesville, where he again engaged in the hardware business.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34c-biographical-3.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 429 / book p. 920

  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 · may repeat 1879-history-of-rock-county, so not counted as independent