A St. John settled on a farm which is now a part of the site of the city of Janesville.

The evidence

• “St. John, who in 1836 settled on a farm which is now a part of the site of the city. The father died in 1861 and the mother in 1872.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34c-biographical-3.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 440 / book p. 930

  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.

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