The Ogdens completed their new log house with a good-sized chamber.

The evidence

• “I mentioned these particulars to show the contrast of the service changes then and with the present time. In the fall of the year 1838 the Ogdens had completed their new log house with a good sized chamber and having plenty of room. In the last of December they asked us to spend the winter with them as the most of us were all worn out with the fever and ague, and in poor condition to pass the winter in the little shanty.”

  1900-caswell-reminiscences/07-fort-atkinson-and-early-janesville.md, PDF pp. 3–27

  Caswell, Lucien Bonaparte. The Reminiscences of the Hon. L. B. Caswell. Written at Fort Atkinson, Wis., 1914–1916; four-column newspaper reprint, newspaper and date unidentified. University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries.

  Grade A: Found on a page of one of our sources