John M. Whitehead was born.

The evidence

• “John M. Whitehead, born on his father's farm July 29, 1852, received a good education at Hillsboro in a local select school and an academy, and at Wabash College one year ; then at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass., he completed preparation for entering Yale, and graduated with honor from that university in 1877. He had the exceptional record of not having missed a recitation or a chapel meeting for five years.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/32-courts-and-legal-profession.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 270 / book p. 770

  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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