Arrivals and settlements: Mr. Armsby came to Beloit; the Whipple family came to Madison; a Norwegian-born settler came to Wisconsin; Walker Moore settled near Afton; a family moved to Avon township; a settler returned to Rock County and purchased a farm; Dr. Tracy located at Beloit; Mr. Burris came to Rock County; John M. Bauhan came to Watertown; a family removed from Oshkosh to Indian Ford; a man returned to Union and resumed farming; others came to Wisconsin.

The evidence

• “This Mr. Armsby came to Beloit in 1862. Later he traveled for a Madison firm until 1873, when he went to Chicago and through his own firm, the J.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/06-history-of-beloit.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 181 / book p. 164

  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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• “Mr. Whipple and his family came to Madison, Wis., in 1862, where he was employed at manufacturing reapers and mowers for a few months ; went to Milwaukee, and worked at shoemaking till the spring of 1863, then returned to Madison, and worked at bis former business till the fall of 1863, then, with his family, returned to Washington Co., N. Y., intending to remain, but, in 1864, came to Milwaukee, and Mr.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/36-bios-harmony.md, PDF p. 893 / book p. 897

  Butterfield, C. W., et al. The History of Rock County, Wisconsin: its early settlement, growth, development, resources, etc. Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1879. Cornell University Library via the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/cu31924028871585.

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