Henry went to California in search of gold in 1853 and remained six years.

The evidence

• “Henry was raised on his father's farm and received his education in the common schools of Walworth county. In 1853 he went to California in search of gold and remained there for six years, when he returned to his native land and spent six months in the town of Newtownards. At the expiration of this time he came back to America and located at Beloit, where he engaged”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34a-biographical-1.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 328 / book p. 825

  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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