Mr. Richardson sold out in Racine and removed to Janesville, engaging in the hardware business (1908 gives the year only).

The evidence

• “and located in Milwaukee, where he found employment as book-kcepsr in one of the largest commercial houses in the place ; in the year 1844. he established himself in the hardware trade in the village of Racine, but not meeting with the success which he anticipated there, in the spring of 1846, he removed to Janesville, and soon took rank among the most active and successful business men in the place ; with a view to enlarging his business, in 1850, Mr. Richardson, in connection with Mr.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/17-bios-janesville.md, PDF p. 716 / book p. 720

  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.

  Grade A: Found on a page of one of our sources

  

• “In 1840 he returned to New York and renewed his studies in the academy of his native town ; but he was too much imbued with the western spirit to long content himself in the East, and consequently in the spring of 1842 he again wended his way westward and located at Milwaukee, Wis., where he secured employment as bookkeeper in one of the large commercial houses in that city. In the year 1844 he engaged in the hardware business at Racine, but not realizing his expectations in that line, he sold out in the spring of 1846 and removed to Janesville, where he again engaged in the hardware business.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34c-biographical-3.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 429 / book p. 920

  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.

  Grade A: Found on a page of one of our sources · may repeat 1879-history-of-rock-county, so not counted as independent