A father left his native land and came to the United States, settling in Section 33, Johnstown township, Rock county.

The evidence

• “In 1849 the father left his native land and came to the United States whither a brother (who shortly before that had died) had preceded him and settled in Section 33, Johnstown township, Rock county, Wisconsin. He there spent his life as a farmer, being esteemed in the community as an upright man, honorable”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34e-biographical-5.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 553 / book p. 1037

  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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