John Inman and William Holmes started from Milwaukee on an exploring tour.

The evidence

• “On July 14, 1835, John Inman of Lucerne county, Pennsylvania, and William Holmes, of Ohio, started from Milwaukee to prospect and find a location. They had heard there of the beauties of the Rock river valley, and so directed their steps in this direction.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/26-history-of-janesville.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 10 / book p. 525

  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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