An individual came to Beloit in 1850 to work on paper mills.

The evidence

• “John McGowan engaged in farming. After several years James S., having completed his education and learned the carpenter's trade, moved to Allen's Grove, near the west line of Walworth county, AVisconsin, then came to Beloit in 1850, working on the paper mills being built there, and in the year 1859 removed to Janesville, "Wis.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/32-courts-and-legal-profession.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 284 / book p. 783

  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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