A family (parents of a later Avon resident) came to America in the spring of 1853 and settled first at Newark, N.

The evidence

• “The father was a cabinetmaker by trade. His parents, with their six children—three sons and three daughters—came to America in the spring of 1853. The first year was spent at Newark, N.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34a-biographical-1.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 325 / book p. 822

  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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