Helge T. Burtness was born in Plymouth township.

The evidence

• “Helge T, Burtness is one of the substantial citizens of Rock county. He was born in Plymouth township on January 25, 1848, to Teman and Helga (Broten) Burtness, who came from Norway, their native land, after their marriage, and settled on 150 acres of government land in Plymouth township. Here they made their home during the remainder of their lives, he dying in 1895 at the age of seventy-eight years, and the mother in 1868.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34d-biographical-4.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 546 / book p. 1030

  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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