A settler located at Edgerton and engaged in watch repairing.

The evidence

• “In 1855 he went to Fort Wayne, Ind., but in March of the following year removed to Madison, Wis., where he spent two and a half years. Settling at Edgerton in July, 1858, he was engaged in watch repairing at the beginning of the Civil War. In October, 1861, he enlisted in Company H, Thirteenth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry and served four years and three months.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34e-biographical-5.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 569 / book p. 1053

  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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