Justus Swingle came to Wisconsin, spending the first winter at Watertown, Jefferson County, engaged in lumbering.

The evidence

• “The former, a son of William Swingle, was born in "Wayne county, Pennsylvania; the latter was a native of Vermont. Justus Swingle was one of the pioneer settlers of Wisconsin, coming hither in 1836. He spent the first winter at Watertown, in Jefferson county, engaged in lumbering.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34c-biographical-3.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 475 / book p. 962

  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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