A minister came to Wisconsin and settled in Rock County, officiating in Center, Magnolia and Albany.

The evidence

• “Magnolia; born April 15, 1803, in Glasgow, Scotland ; there and in Edinburgh he was educated ; came to America in.l820, and stayed in Canada till 1828, when he moved to New York ; was in business there for six years; was a Methodist minister for fourteen years. In 1849, he came to Wisconsin and settled in Rock Co. ; he then united with the Congregational Convention and officiated as a minister in Center, Magnolia and Albany, till 1858, when Center was able to support a minister of its own, and he continued the other two till 1870, when he went to Grant Co., and continued his ministrations in Muscoda and Avoca, two villages, one in Iowa Co., and the other in Grant Co. During the first nine years, he built churches at Center, Blagnolia and Albany.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/33-bios-magnolia.md, PDF p. 875 / book p. 879

  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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