A settler arrived in Beloit on a Sunday morning, having walked from Racine in the spring of 1841.

The evidence

• “From Buffalo he worked his way to Milwaukee, and later to Racine, spending a year or two in each place. Finally, in the spring of 1841, he came to Beloit, walking all the way from Racine and carrying his bundle of clothes, fastened to a stick, on his shoulder. It was nine or ten o'clock Sunday morning, April 4, when he arrived and walked up State street, not knowing where to go, and not able to speak a word of American.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34e-biographical-5.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 599 / book p. 1083

  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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