Rock County, Wisconsin; a new history of its cities, villages, towns, citizens and varied interests, from the earliest times, up to date . associate justice ofthe Supreme court by President Jackson. Being a bachelor, his residence was not necessarily confinedto any particular locality. He always preferred southern society,and as soon as the term of his last office was ended, he went toSt. Louis, where he remained some length of time, and subse-quently went to Texas, where, with the economical accumula-tions of the principal and interest of his salary as judge, he madelarge investments in wild
Rock County, Wisconsin; a new history of its cities, villages, towns, citizens and varied interests, from the earliest times, up to date . associate justice ofthe Supreme court by President Jackson. Being a bachelor, his residence was not necessarily confinedto any particular locality. He always preferred southern society,and as soon as the term of his last office was ended, he went toSt. Louis, where he remained some length of time, and subse-quently went to Texas, where, with the economical accumula-tions of the principal and interest of his salary as judge, he madelarge investments in wild cotton land, which made him a manof wealth. Edward Vernon Whiton was the son of General JosephWhiton, of ]\Iassachusetts, a soldier of the Revolution and alsoof the war of 1812. He was born at South Lee, Berkshire county,Mass., June 2, 1805, and spent the first thirty years of life in hisnative town. There, during young manhood, occurred to him anexperience, which tinged his life with at least temporary melan-choly and may have been one cause of his deciding to go the age of thirty he moved to this region of Wisconsin, just. AXGIE J. KINO. COUKTS AND LEGAL PROFESSION 719 before it became a separate territory, and lived by himself ina little cabin that he built in the northern part of what is nowthe city of Janesville. The family tradition is that he was aneager hunter and fisherman and liked to be alone with his E. Arnold, then president of the bar association of Wisconsin,at their meeting, held April 14, 1859, said that in early days,when obliged to visit the western part of this territory, going byway of Janesville, which then contained one cabin, he usuallyspent the night at the house of Judge Holmes at Rockport, socalled, just below Janesville. There he learned that a bachelornamed Whiton, then living a secluded and almost hermit life ina cabin on the prairie, w^as the strong man in the interests ofJanesville. The whole truth of the matter included much mor
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