Elijah True, with his family, journeyed around the lakes and landed at Racine (having selected his Fulton Township location in 1839; he came in 1840 to remain permanently).

The evidence

• “Mary True Arnold were born in Perry, Wyoming county, New York, and were educated there and in Janesville. June 6, 1840, Elijah True with his family journeyed around the lakes and landed at Racine. From thence”

  1908-brown-rock-county/19-pioneer-women.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 495 / book p. 459

  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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