Solomon Spoon was born in Perry county, Pennsylvania.

The evidence

• “Solomon Spoon, for more than three score years a resident of Rock county, Wisconsin, is justly counted among the representative citizens and substantial farmers. He was born in Perry county, Pennsylvania, on August 11, 1829, and is the fourth of eleven children born to Abraham and Martha (Earnest) Spoon, both natives of that state. Their other children named in the order of their births, were Anna, Samuel, Elizabeth, George, Conard, Abraham, Mary, John and Henry.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34b-biographical-2.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 409 / book p. 901

  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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