Judge John M. Keep settled at Beloit.

The evidence

• “Keep, of Beloit, a sound and able lawyer, was elected. Judge Keep was originally from New York, and settled at Beloit in 1844. He was a genial man, full of good humor.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/10-rock-county-ch04-early-maps-courts-railroads.md, PDF p. 361 / book p. 365

  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

  

• “John M. Keep, a native of New York, who settled at Beloit in 1844, and who is remembered as a lawyer and judge of ability and a man of genial good nature and humor, was elected. Failing health obliged Judge Keep to resign his office in the spring of 1859, and he was succeeded by Mr.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/32-courts-and-legal-profession.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 211 / book p. 715

  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