Professor Blaisdell came to Wisconsin, locating at Beloit (Beloit College).

The evidence

• “BLAISDELL, Professor of Beloit College ; was born in Canaan, Grafton Co., N. H., Feb. 8, 1827, and came to Wisconsin in September, 1859, locating at Beloit, He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1846, and at the Theological Seminary at Andover, Mass., in 1852. He then moved to Lebanon and engaged in the practice of law for three years, after which, he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, and was there Pastor of the Presbyterian Church seven years. From Cincinnati, he moved to Beloit, and since that time has been connected with Beloit College, from 1859 to 1864, as Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, and from that time, as Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy and Christian Evidences, Mr. Blaisdell was Superintendent of Schools in 1847, at Lebanon, N, H.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/18-bios-beloit.md, PDF p. 731

  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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