James Sutherland became the first superintendent of schools in Janesville township.

The evidence

• “James Sutherland, the first superintendent of schools in Janesville township in 1848, and of the city schools after its first charter, introduced and championed the normal school bill through the state senate in 1857.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/12-janesville-schools.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 286 / book p. 262

  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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