A physician moved west in 1838 and located at Geneva Lake, Walworth County.

The evidence

• “Y., where he engaged in the practice of his profession until 1834, when his health being again affected by too close application, he relinquished his practice and returned to Vermont, with little hope of surviving. A change to mercantile business improving his health, he moved west in 1838 and located at Geneva Lake, "Walworth county, "Wis. In 1839 he was appointed district attorney of the county, and was a member of the territorial council for the counties of "Walworth and Rock for four years, commencing in 1842, and was a delegate to the first constitutional convention in 1846.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/32-courts-and-legal-profession.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 219 / book p. 722

  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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