A young man (later Beloit telegrapher) took a journey for his health to central Minnesota.

The evidence

• “January 12, 1852, he taught in the new brick building, Union school No. 1, in the city park, associated with Miss Emeline Fisher and Mrs. Carey; in the fall of 1853 he taught a district school in Newark until he w^as taken sick, and during the winter and in the spring of 1854 taught on the west side in the stone building, now No. 631 Bluff street, where B. C. Rogers was a later teacher. During that time he learned telegraphy, and in 1853 had charge of the Beloit ofiEice. In the summer of 1853, having narrowly escaped drowning in Rock river just below the dam, he took a journey for his health to central Minnesota, the yet unrevealed scene of his future life work. Entering the freshman class of the Beloit college in 1854, James W.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34a-biographical-1.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 296 / book p. 795

  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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