The first wedding in Rock county took place, in the early winter of 1836, according to a reminiscence.

The evidence

• “I was at the first wedding in Rock county in the early winter of 1836, I think it was. At the legislative session held at Burlington, Iowa, Daniel Smiley and a man named Brown, were appointed justices of the peace for this county.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/08-i-t-smith-reminiscences.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 228 / book p. 208

  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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