A small select school was started in Janesville, kept by a Miss Teed of Rockford, Illinois.

The evidence

• “This greatly discouraged me, and my ambition in that direction was greatly shocked. In 1845 there was a small select school started in Janesville, kept by a Miss Teed of Rockford, Illinois. I obtained a place to board in the family of W.”

  1900-caswell-reminiscences/08-hunting-and-outdoor-life.md, PDF pp. 3–27

  Caswell, Lucien Bonaparte. The Reminiscences of the Hon. L. B. Caswell. Written at Fort Atkinson, Wis., 1914–1916; four-column newspaper reprint, newspaper and date unidentified. University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries.

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