The act incorporating the Evansville Seminary was approved.

The evidence

• “At the next session of the Legislature, held in 1856, that body passed an act entitled, " An Act to incorporate the Evansville Seminary," which was approved on March 18 of the same year. Prior, however, to the passage of that act, and prior to the meeting held on August 10, 1855, Mr.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/12-rock-county-ch06-politics-war-record.md, PDF p. 488

  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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