Austin Burdick purchased an iron cook stove in Beloit.

The evidence

• “Tointon's house is now on. This log cabin home was warmed in winter from logs burning in an open fireplace in front of which the meals were cooked until 1852, the advent of a new method of cooking, when Austin Burdick purchased an iron cook stove in Beloit.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/31-smaller-cities-villages-towns.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 144 / book p. 652

  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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