Two unnamed lawyers resolved to remove to the West, later settling in Janesville.

The evidence

• “In the autumn of the same year (1848) they resolved to remove to the West. They had never heard of Janesville before leaving New York, but during the journey they heard it highly spoken of as a promising village in the interior of Wisconsin.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/32-courts-and-legal-profession.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 260 / book p. 761

  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