A settler (teacher and surveyor) died on the farm where he first settled.

The evidence

• “He was a man of considerable influence in the community, well educated and for a time taught school and also engaged in surveying for a number of years. He improved and lived on the farm where he first settled, with moderate success, until his decease, which occurred in 1856. His widow survived until sometime in the eighties.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34e-biographical-5.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 563 / book p. 1047

  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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