Settlers and arrivals: a veterinary surgeon settled in Beloit; an unnamed man came to America, living in Oswego Co., N. Y.; Sanborn came West and settled in Illinois near Beloit; Rogers came to Beloit; a family came to Newark township and took up forty acres; a settler located on a Rock Co. farm of 101 acres; Wm. C. came to Emerald Grove and bought a farm; a settler located on Section 14 in Rock Co.; families came to Waukesha Co., Wisconsin, Avon, Footville, Union township, Bradford, Cooksville, Mount Pleasant (Green Co.), Milwaukee, and Magnolia township; the Lofthus family bought 160 acres in Avon; the Stordock family settled in Avon; Horace K. Leonard's family came to Beloit; Jesse Smith settled in Union township; the elder Hesgard came from Norway; a family settled in Magnolia township.

The evidence

• “years, he was a student of St. George's Hospital, thence to the Veterinary Collefrc, London, from which "he graduated, then went into business and two years after married the daughter of his partner, and lived in one house nineteen years, till 1847, when he emigrated to America ; after spending one year in traveling through different parts of the United States he settled in Beloit, in 1848 ; here he purchased a fine larni. and lived upon it six years, when, upon the death of his wife, ho sold his property and removed to Janesville, his present home ; in 1857, he estahlished himself as a veterinary surgeon ; he rapidly grew info an extensive practice, and has obtained a good reputation as a thoroughly qualified surgeon ; Dr.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/17-bios-janesville.md, PDF p. 711 / book p. 715

  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

• “His parents, Holver and Isabelle (Knutson) Stordock, were both natives of Norway, where they lived till 1839, when they, like many others from their native land, emigrated to the United States and first settled in Cook county, Illinois. From Cook county he went to the lead mines at Mineral Point and then back to Winnebago county, Illinois, but later moved to Avon township in 1848, where they settled on a farm and remained the rest of their lives. During his long and prosperous career Holver Stordock followed the business of farming except for three years which he spent in the lead mines.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34c-biographical-3.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 463 / book p. 951

  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.

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