A young lawyer emigrated with his father's family to Wisconsin, settling in what is now the town of Lyons, Walworth county.

The evidence

• “In 1841 he, then in his nineteenth year, emigrated with his father and family to Wisconsin, and settled in what is now the town of Lyons, Walworth county, where he resided until 1850. With the exception of two terms of school teaching, he worked on a farm until the spring of 1844, when he entered the office of the late Judge George Gale, then a practicing lawyer at Elkhorn, as a student ; but before this, he had read Blackstone 's commentaries as well as those of Kent quite thoroughly.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/32-courts-and-legal-profession.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 222 / book p. 725

  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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