The father of the Rosa family settled in the town of Center.

The evidence

• “D. 1870. His father was one of the early pioneers of Rock county, having settled in the town of Center in May, 1841. Young Rosa attended the district school near his home during boyhood and at the age of fourteen took upon himself the running of the home farm.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/32-courts-and-legal-profession.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 275 / book p. 775

  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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