A couple (the biographical subject and his wife, Nancy Maxon, married December 22, 1821) came to Alfred and began keeping house in a log cabin.

The evidence

• “Y., and married Nancy Maxon December 22, 1821. In the spring of 1822 they came to Alfred and began to keep house in the little log cabin—without a window or a door and with the ground for a floor.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34c-biographical-3.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 446 / book p. 936

  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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