A man came West and settled in La Prairie township, Rock county.

The evidence

• “Our subject passed his early life in his native state, where he received a good English education in the common schools. Soon after attaining his majority in 1844 he came West and settled in La Prairie township. Rock county, where he devoted himself to farming and made his home.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34b-biographical-2.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 375 / book p. 869

  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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