A sketch's subject returned to Magnolia and bought eighty acres.

The evidence

• “H.; moved with his parents to AValdo Co., Maine, when 6 years old. where he worked on his father's farm and taught school winters till 1847, when he went to Dedham, Mass., and worked as a carpenter and joiner ; in 1848, he and his brother built a store and carried on a general mercantile business ; in 1850, he went to Boston and worked in the freight depot of the Taunton & New Bedford R. R.; in 1855, he came to Wisconsin and located at Magnolia Corners, Rock Co., where his father, himself and brother-in-law, rented 240 acres of land and the two latter bought eighty acres ; in 1858, moved to Footville, and visited Dedham, Mass., to repair some houses which he owned there; in the spring of 1859, returned to Magnolia and bought eighty acres ; went back to Dedham, in 1864, and sold his property ; in 1867, he bought eighty acres and now owns 160, on which he raises all kinds of grain and stock. Married Mrs.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/33-bios-magnolia.md, PDF p. 873

  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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