A man came to Wisconsin in 1847.

The evidence

• “Janesville was also connected with the war through Louis P. Harvey, the war governor of Wisconsin ; while he did not live in Janesville yet he was a Rock county man, was present in Janesville a great deal of the time, and had many close friends and acquaintances here; he was born in Connecticut in 1820, and moved to Rock county in 1847. He was engaged in the milling business at Shopiere for a number of years, and was elected to the state senate from Rock county for four years, beginning with 1853.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/26-history-of-janesville.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 47 / book p. 560

  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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