A future Janesville baker and Bradford farmer was born in Scotland.

The evidence

• “P. 0. Janesville ; born in Scotland in 1829 ; came to Wisconsin in 1849 ; located at Janesville, where he followed the business of baker for two years, when he moved to Bradford, and purchased eighty acres in Sec. 9 ; in 1868, sold out, and moved to La Prairie, Sec. 9, and has ac present under cultivation 320 acres — his present homestead. Married, Nov. 12, 1851, Miss Jane Trotter, a native of Ireland.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/26-bios-la-prairie.md, PDF p. 835 / book p. 839

  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.

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