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| | Biographical Sketches-Oconomowoc Township, Waukesha County, Wisconsin Genealogy (GenWeb) |
 | | At that time the wilderness of the county was unbroken save but by the well-worn Indian trails which led from the four lakes at Madison to Lake Koshkonong, which, a few years previous, had been the camping-ground of the famous Indian chief Black Hawk. |
 | | Y., in 1831, and came to Wisconsin in 1844 and located on a farm in the town of Ixonia, Jefferson Co., which was his home till 1853 or ’54, when he removed to the town of Ashippun, Dodge Co., and engaged in farming there till 1874, when he came to Oconomowoc,. |
 | | His second marriage was in 1859, to Sarah A. Halverson, a native of Norway, and came to Wisconsin in 1849; their children are Isabella A., now in Evanston, Ill. Nicholas H.; Paulina F.; Nelson I. and Betsy A. Two of his sons are members of the Lutheran Church, the rest attend the Methodist. |
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