A child (Ira Cleophas Holverson's entry) was born February 4, 1853 in Newark township.

The evidence

• “Ira Cleophas is one of the successful and prosperous farmers and substantial citizens of Newark township. Rock county, Wisconsin, where he was born February 4, 1853. He is the youngest son of a family of six children, of whom five are now (1907) living, born to Cleophas Holverson and Kari Holverson, who came to this country from Norway in 1843.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34d-biographical-4.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 511 / book p. 997

  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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