The bar association of Wisconsin held a meeting, at which its president E. Arnold spoke.

The evidence

• “E. Arnold, then president of the bar association of Wisconsin, at their meeting, held April 14, 1859, said that in early days, when obliged to visit the western part of this territory, going by way of Janesville, which then contained one cabin, he usually spent the night at the house of Judge Holmes at Rockport, so called, just below Janesville. There he learned that a bachelor named Whiton, then living a secluded and almost hermit life in a cabin on the prairie, w^as the strong man in the interests of Janesville.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/32-courts-and-legal-profession.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 216 / book p. 719

  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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