Mr. Pease laid aside law books and took up surveying for two years.

The evidence

• “Whiton, then the leading lawyer in the territory. During the summer of 1844, much against his will, the law books were laid aside and for two years his time was given to surveying, there being a great rush of new settlers into Janesville and the surrounding country who wanted work done in that line, and Mr. Pease was the only person available and experienced in such work or who would undertake it.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/32-courts-and-legal-profession.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 240 / book p. 742

  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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