The flour and feed firm of Blodgett & Nelson was organized in Beloit, succeeding to the business of Mr. Hackett.

The evidence

• “Then mention might be made of the flour and feed firm of Messrs. Blodgett & Nelson, west side, which was organized in 1857, succeeding to the business of Mr. Hackett, who built his mill in 1848: also the old Brooks mill, built on Turtle creek about 1859, called the stone mill, and later owned by W.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/06-history-of-beloit.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 188 / book p. 170

  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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