A merchant closed his business affairs in the East in 1853 and settled in Rock county, Wisconsin (Turtle township).

The evidence

• “Closing out his stock of goods in 1849 he returned to New Hampshire and remained at home till after the death of his father in 1851 and then resumed his occupation of general merchandizing at Cordaville, Mass. With a view to widening the scope of his activities he, in 1853, closed his business affairs in the East, and coming West, settled in Rock county, Wisconsin, where he had previously purchased a tract of unimproved land in Section 8, Turtle township. Here he built a rude log house, where, with his family, he experienced all the privations and hardships incident to pioneer life.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34d-biographical-4.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 536 / book p. 1021

  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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