A future Rock County resident was born in the town of Lindley, Steuben county, N. Y.

The evidence

• “He was born in the town of Lindley, Steuben county, N. Y,, June 8, 1829. His mother was of New England and his father of Scotch-Irish ancestry.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/32-courts-and-legal-profession.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 237 / book p. 739

  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.

  Grade A: Found on a page of one of our sources