A Lima Township farmer moved with his family into a small frame house and began developing his farm.

The evidence

• “With little or no means other than his native energy, he at once secured employment at twelve dollars per month, and from his earnings the first five years saved enough to buy eighty acres of land in Section 15, Lima township. In 1856 he moved with his family into a small frame house and began the development of his farm. He was a man of intense activity, upright, clear-sighted and thrifty withal, and to his original purchase afterwards added 245 acres, all of which, under his careful management, was brought to a high state of development.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34e-biographical-5.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 587 / book p. 1071

  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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