A. Leonard, in partnership with a cousin, bought eighty acres east of the present site of Evansville and planted a nursery.

The evidence

• “Leonard sold his interest for .$300, receiving in payment $140 in cash, a note for $40 and a buggy for the balance, and, going to Janesville, traded the buggy for three town lots on the west side of the river. In 1844 he visited his home in the East and spent the winter there, and on his return in the spring of 1845 in partnership with a cousin bought eighty acres just east of the present site of Evansville and planted a nursery. He soon traded his town lots for his cousin's half interest and carried on the nursery on his own account, teaching during the winters.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34d-biographical-4.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 516 / book p. 1002

  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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