Birth of a wife, later married in 1842, in New York state.

The evidence

• “He was a Universalist in religious faith. His wife, who was born in New York state in 1831, was educated in the common schools there. She afterward moved to Pennsj'lvania with her parents and lived there until her marriage, November 7, 1842.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34e-biographical-5.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 560 / book p. 1044

  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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