Many settlers came to Edgerton, among them James Hill, a carpenter.

The evidence

• “There Frank Hall was born, with the distinction of being the first child born in the village. Many came the winter of 1853-54, among them James Hill, a carpenter, whose wife and three daughters were prominent in society in later years.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/31-smaller-cities-villages-towns.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 146 / book p. 654

  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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