Jonathan Cook came to Wisconsin and located in what is now Magnolia Township.

The evidence

• “JONATHAN COOK, farmer and proprietor of hotel in Magnolia Village; born March 17, 1811, in Chenango Co., N. Y.; moved to Monroe Co. in 1832, and, in the spring of 1844, came to Wisconsin when it was a Territory, and located in what is now Magnolia Township, Rock Co.; he took up 160 acres of Government land and built a log house; the following spring he sold out, and in the spring of 1846 took up 160 acres again and built a log house, and he farmed this land till 1856 ; in 1857, he bought 120 acres and cultivated it till 1860, when he traded all but forty acres for a house and lot in Magnolia Village ; at this time he was manufacturing drums as well as attending to hLs farm ; in 1864, he”

  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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