A young man remained at the Middlebury (Ohio) Comb Factory from 1851 to 1855.

The evidence

• “Edward received his education in the schools of England and when nineteen years and six months of ago he came to the United States and first found employment with the Middlebury (Ohio) Comb Factory. He remained here from 1851 to 1855 and then came to Beloit and was employed in the lumber yards of this place, where he remained one year, and then commenced farming, in which he engaged until 1887, when he sold the farm and went to Minnesota, settling in Lyon county. He lived there eleven years, then returned to Beloit in 1898, and has since been in retirement from active business cares.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34a-biographical-1.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 311 / book p. 809

  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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