Mr. Watson came to Janesville, where he became proprietor of the Ogden house and then resumed contracting.

The evidence

• “In the spring of 1855 Mr. Watson came to Janesville, where, after a few months as proprietor of the Ogden house, he resumed his former business as contractor, building bridges and culverts on the Milwaukee and St.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34b-biographical-2.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 421 / book p. 912

  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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