A Brodhead resident was born in Hamilton Co., N. Y.

The evidence

• “Brodhead; born in Hamilton Co., N. Y., in 1825 ; he went to Evansville, Ind., in 1853, and, in the spring of 1854, came to Avon and bought eighty acres of land in Section 17 ; partly improved it, and sold it; worked on other farms a short time, and returned East; in November, 1856, he married in Harpersville, N. Y., Marcia Z.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/33-bios-magnolia.md, PDF p. 878 / book p. 882

  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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