A man married the daughter of an acquaintance (per his account), at Clinton, Wisconsin (full names not given in the passage).

The evidence

• “became acquainted with them and on the 4th of August, 1851, that daughter, "a nice young lady" he called her, became his wife. She was a good Christian woman, he told me, a Methodist, and they lived together forty-seven years, until she died at Clinton, Wis., in 1898, when sixty-four years old.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34e-biographical-5.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 601 / book p. 1085

  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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