1838
Other 1838 events elsewhere involving people later connected to Rock County: a firm invested largely in real estate in Evansville and southern Indiana; a professor served at the New York Institution for the Deaf and Dumb from 1838 to 1843; the Delaware breakwater was completed; a civil engineer was engaged in extending the Erie Canal; a settler bought and managed a hotel in New York; Lavina Phillips died; Robert Cuckow died in England at age seventy-one; Simeon Schoonover settled on a farm in Ohio; and a young man took employment as a clerk in a Pittsburgh wholesale grocery house.
The evidence
“Carpenter & Co., they furnishing about $40,000 and A. B. about $10,000 ; in 1838 and 1839, the firm invested largely in real estate in Evansville and Southern Indiana; about this time the well-known panic came on, which, however, they weathered through, paying 100 cents on the dollar, and paying as high as twenty per cent for exchange ; they shortly after sold out their business, and took as part pay a steam flouring-mill ; his brother conducted the mill, and, in 1841, Mr. A.”
1879-history-of-rock-county/18-bios-beloit.md, PDF p. 735 / book p. 739
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
On the printed page (PDF p. 735 / book p. 739) · open the whole page “His father was born in Rochester, Kent, England, January 16, 1815, and was the second son of Thomas B. and Elizabeth Cuckow, the former being a son of Thomas Cuckow, who was born in England in 1787 and who came to this country in 1818 but soon afterward returned to England with his family. His father, Robert Cuckow, passed his life in England and died in 1838 at the age of seventy-one years.”
1908-brown-rock-county/34c-biographical-3.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 464 / book p. 952
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
On the printed page (Vol. 2, PDF p. 464 / book p. 952) · open the whole page
