Jasper N. Janes was born in Janesville, the first child born in the place.

The evidence

• “My son, Jasper N. Janes, was born in Janesville May 15, 1838, and was the first child born in the place.* He is now in his seventeenth year, is tall and slim and partakes rather strongly of Voung America. If any of the " Wauhoos" of Janesville who have not the good or bad fortune to be acquainted with me desire more information, I can inform them that I am now in my fifty-second year, weigh two hundred and ten pounds, stand six feet and two inches in my socks, and have rambled with my family over more of the western country and to less purpose than any other man in it.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/14-rock-county-ch08-janesville.md, PDF p. 542 / book p. 546

  Butterfield, C. W., et al. The History of Rock County, Wisconsin: its early settlement, growth, development, resources, etc. Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1879. Cornell University Library via the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/cu31924028871585.

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