Rice and Luscena (Cheney) Dearborn settled in Beloit and were married there.

The evidence

• “Dearborn, of Beloit, Wis., a daughter of Rice and Luscena (Cheney) Dearborn, the former a native of Saco, Maine, and the latter of Lunenburg, Vt. They settled in Beloit in 1838 and were married there, and there spent their lives—the father's death occurring in 1866 and that of the mother in 1901. Six children were born to them, of whom the eldest son, Horace Dearborn, was a prominent lawyer in Beloit, where he died in 1881.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34a-biographical-1.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 309 / book p. 807

  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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