A merchant closed out his stock of goods and returned to New Hampshire.

The evidence

• “In 1838 he took employment as a clerk in a wholesale grocery house of Pittsburg, and a little later engaged in the retail boot and shoe trade on his own account, and so continued till 1842, when he closed his business and going to Watertown, Ohio, there eng^iged in general merchandizing about seven years. Closing out his stock of goods in 1849 he returned to New Hampshire and remained at home till after the death of his father in 1851 and then resumed his occupation of general merchandizing at Cordaville, Mass. With a view to widening the scope of his activities he, in 1853, closed his business affairs in the East, and coming West, settled in Rock county, Wisconsin, where he had previously purchased a tract of unimproved land in Section 8, Turtle township.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34d-biographical-4.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 536 / book p. 1021

  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.

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