Parents came to the United States and settled in Johnstown township, Rock county.

The evidence

• “His elder brother, William, is a farmer in Johnstown township, and his younger brother, Robert, lives on the family homestead. The parents came to the United States in 1849 and settled in Johnstown township. Rock county, Wisconsin, where the father bought a tract of unimproved land, where he made a home and reared his family.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34b-biographical-2.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 387 / book p. 881

  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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