October 3

• October 3, 1853

  The State departments were closed for one day as a testimonial of respect for Timothy Burns.

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• October 3, 1856

  An act of the legislature granted the unsold congress-granted lands, through the Fox and Wisconsin Improvement company, to trustees.

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Born on this day, elsewhere

People who later came to Rock County.

• October 3, 1833

  Aldrich, manufacturer of Aldrich Wind-Mills, was born in Munro, Saratoga Co., N. Y.
• October 3, 1833

  A Universalist minister was ordained at Stanstead, L. C., as a minister in the Northern Association of Universalists.
• October 3, 1838

  Black Hawk died on his reservation in southeastern Iowa, aged seventy-one years.
• October 3, 1843

  A man was ordained at Chicago by the Lutheran pastor, Rev. Hoffman.
• October 3, 1846

  Halvor L. Skavlem was born in the town of Newark, Rock County.