A returnee from Australia came West and made investments in Dodge county, Wisconsin, including a hotel.

The evidence

• “He then returned to New York and six months later went to Australia and there spent five years and accumulated a moderate fortune. On his return he made some investments in New York property, and in 1859 came West and made investments in Dodge county, Wisconsin ; among these properties in which he invested was a hotel which afterwards came into his possession and led to his bringing his family thither. His was a life of great activity and varied experiences, comprising among other things a term of service under General Winfield Scott in the Mexican War, from which he was honorably discharged at the close of that conflict.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34c-biographical-3.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 485 / book p. 972

  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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