Mr. [Dwight] Foster came with his family [to the Fort Atkinson neighborhood], into a log house he had previously built, and began pioneer housekeeping.

The evidence

• “Mr. Foster with whom I lived so long, came here with his family November 10th, 1836. He had been here before and built a log house so they began pioneer house keeping at once.”

  1900-caswell-reminiscences/10-politics-and-congress.md, PDF pp. 3–27

  Caswell, Lucien Bonaparte. The Reminiscences of the Hon. L. B. Caswell. Written at Fort Atkinson, Wis., 1914–1916; four-column newspaper reprint, newspaper and date unidentified. University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries.

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