A settler came to Wisconsin and settled at Evansville, engaging in the harness business.

The evidence

• “schools until he was thirteen years of age, then set to work at the farming business, which he followed for four years. He came to Wisconsin in 1856 and settled at Evansville, where he engaged in the harness business, and followed the same until 1880. He came to Janesville, Wis., in 1888, where he has since remained.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34b-biographical-2.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 420 / book p. 911

  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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