An angry contest was going on in Janesville about the erection of a public school house.

The evidence

• “Pease was always a friend and supporter. In 1844, when he became a resident of Janesville, there was an angry contest going on about the erection of a public school house. He favored the project.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/32-courts-and-legal-profession.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 240 / book p. 742

  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.

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