Hiram Brown taught a few children in a log schoolhouse in the southeast part of Janesville, the first school in Janesville (the Janesville school itself is dated to 1838 by other passages).

The evidence

• “In the winter of 1838 and 1839 Hiram Brown taught a few children in a k)g schoolhouse in the southeast part of the city, being the first school in Janesville.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/26-history-of-janesville.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 17 / book p. 532

  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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