Gilbert Randolph came to Edgerton and built the American House

The evidence

• “Bowen. Gilbert Randolph came in February, 1854, built the American House in the following summer and fall, sold it to Samuel Coon, who was the first occupant, and returned to his native state, New Jersey.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/31-smaller-cities-villages-towns.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 147 / book p. 655

  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