The first frame house in a township was built by Daniel McKillip "as early as 1856."

The evidence

• “Pickett and William Virgin. The first frame house was built by Daniel McKillip as early as 1856; this town originally numbered many enterprising farmers, which number has been augmented by scores of others like them who have built up and improved the township with modern buildings and well improved farms.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/31-smaller-cities-villages-towns.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 183 / book p. 689

  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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