The Cunningham parents came to Beloit from Ireland.

The evidence

• “Elizabeth (Bailey) Cunningham, both born and reared in Ireland, but who, believing that better opportunities existed in the United States for them, came to Beloit in 1849. Mr.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34a-biographical-1.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 316 / book p. 814

  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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