A farmer removed to Wisconsin and settled on a tract of land in Milton township.

The evidence

• “She died at Milton, Wis., May 26, 1872, and on June 19, 1874, he married Mary Needham. Prior to 1849 he was a farmer and stock raiser in his native state, and drove his stock to the Baltimore market. In the year last named he removed to Wisconsin and settled on a tract of land in Milton township, which he improved and on which he lived until 1860, when he purchased a farm between Milton and Milton Junction, on which he lived until his decease.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34e-biographical-5.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 583 / book p. 1067

  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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