The Cleophas Holverson family moved from Dane county to Rock county, settling on forty acres in Newark township.

The evidence

• “He is the youngest son of a family of six children, of whom five are now (1907) living, born to Cleophas Holverson and Kari Holverson, who came to this country from Norway in 1843. The parents, with their first child, settled first in Dane county, Wisconsin, but in 1844 they moved to Rock county and settled on a tract of forty acres, now ow^ned by our subject. Later he added to his original purchase other land in section 12, Newark township, now owned by his brother, Halver, and there made his home and reared his family and passed the remainder of his life, reaching the age of eighty-eight years.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34d-biographical-4.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 511 / book p. 997

  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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