Deacon Samuel Hinman moved to Beloit from Prairieville (now Waukesha).

The evidence

• “In 1847 Deacon Samuel Hinman had moved to Beloit from what is now Waukesha, then Prairieville, and had taken charge of the work of building that first college building.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/15-colleges.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 328 / book p. 301

  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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