[Mr. Richardson] again turned his face westward, locating at Milwaukee and securing employment as a bookkeeper.

The evidence

• “In 1840 he returned to New York and renewed his studies in the academy of his native town ; but he was too much imbued with the western spirit to long content himself in the East, and consequently in the spring of 1842 he again wended his way westward and located at Milwaukee, Wis., where he secured employment as bookkeeper in one of the large commercial houses in that city. In the year 1844 he engaged in the hardware business at Racine, but not realizing his expectations in that line, he sold out in the spring of 1846 and removed to Janesville, where he again engaged in the hardware business.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34c-biographical-3.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 429 / book p. 920

  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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