A future Beloit Township resident was born in Rome, N. Y.

The evidence

• “Beloit ; born at Rome, N. Y., in 1830, and in 1857 he came to Rock Co., Wis., and located in the town of Janesville ; in the fall of the same year, he came to Beloit Township and bought seventy-two and one-half acres of land in Section 3, with a house on it ; he improved the house, built barns, etc., and now has a very comfortable place. He married in Wayne, Penn., in 1854, Lola A.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/18-bios-beloit.md, PDF p. 733 / book p. 737

  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.

  Grade A: Found on a page of one of our sources