A father settled in Magnolia township, Rock county.

The evidence

• “The father, a native of Vermont, was born in 1810 and followed farming all his life. In 1847 he settled in Magnolia township, Eock county, Wisconsin, taking up eighty acres of wild land which he improved, making a home where he lived and reared his family. Adding to his original purchase from time to time, he owned at the time of his decease, June 20, 1885, some four hundred acres nearly all under cultivation, besides some”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34e-biographical-5.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 559 / book p. 1043

  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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