A small schoolhouse was built near the river (Forest Home) and a school established there in 1853.

The evidence

• “of the household from that point of view.) They made Forest Home not only a most delightful spot to the children, but also a place of stimulus to intellectual and moral growth. When Frances was twelve years old a governess assisted in their education, when, in 1853, a small schoolhouse was built near the river and a school established there. Two or three years of that country school life, with a term at a select school in Janesville, were followed by one term for the two girls in the Woman's College at Milwaukee.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34e-biographical-5.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 597 / book p. 1081

  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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