A man's parents removed to Wisconsin in 1853.

The evidence

• “Our subject was reared and educated in his native town and in 1845 came West and settled at Eagle, now Waukesha, Wis., and engaged in teaching some three years. He afterward engaged in the mercantile business at Moquantigo, then at Eagle and then Palmyra and later at Albion, whence, in 1865 he removed to Edgerton ; in the meantime, in 1853, his parents removed to Wisconsin. The father died at the son's home at the age of seventy-five years, and the mother at the age of — .”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34e-biographical-5.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 566 / book p. 1050

  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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