A tailor went to California in 1852 and started business in Colonia, El Dorado Co.

The evidence

• “WILLIAM CLATWORTHY WORTHY^, auctioneer and commission merchant, Edgerton ; born in Somersetshire, England, Deo. 16, 1823 ; son of William and Sophia (Trott) Clatworthy ; tailor by trade ; came to America in 1840, and located at Skeneateles, Onondaga Co., N. Y. ; lived there till 1852, when he went to California and started the tailoring and clothing business in Colonia, El Dorado Co. ; returned East, came to Wisconsin, and settled at Edgerton, Rock Co., in 1857, at the same business ; started the first bowling alley and saloon here; sold out and volunteered, in 1862, in the 11th Wisconsin, under Capt. Harris ; served eight months ; came back and purchased the American Hotel from Lorenzo Dearborn, and kept hotel for fifteen years; now in the auction business.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/27-bios-fulton.md, PDF p. 839 / book p. 848

  Butterfield, C. W., et al. The History of Rock County, Wisconsin: its early settlement, growth, development, resources, etc. Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1879. Cornell University Library via the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/cu31924028871585.

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