A cabinetmaker's son left home and went to Binghamton, N. Y.

The evidence

• “His father was a cabinetmaker by occupation, and the son assisted him in his business from an early age, and when arriving at the age of fifteen years he was possessed of a good knowledge of the trade. The following year—in 1849—he left home and, going to Binghamton, N. Y., worked at his chosen occupation for a period of four years.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34b-biographical-2.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 373 / book p. 867

  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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