C. Mann bought out Bristol and started the "Rock County Republican."

The evidence

• “C. Mann, September, 1860. Mann bought out Bristol and started the "Rock County Republican," weekly, in December, 1860, with Horace R. Hobart assistant editor.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/24-janesville-press.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 541 / book p. 502

  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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