A Walworth-county resident was elected judge of probate.

The evidence

• “In 1842 he removed to Wisconsin, and in 1843 settled in Elkhorn, Walworth county, where he ever after resided. In 1846 he was elected judge of probate, which office he held until the probate was merged into the county court.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/32-courts-and-legal-profession.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 217 / book p. 720

  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