Person:Thomas Lappin (1)

1870 Census (912): Janesville, ROCK, WI, 51, merchant, Ireland. 1880 Census (625): Janesville, ROCK, WI, 61, retired merchant, Ireland.

Source: Sketches of Wisconsin Pioneer Women, by Florence Chambers Dexheimer,

W. D. Hoard & Sons Co., Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin; Pages 111-112
Mr. Lappin was the pioneer merchant of the town and used to walk to Chicago and Milwaukee to buy his goods. Their wedding trip consisted of driving a horse and buggy across country to Milwaukee, the first stop being Johnstown. (Looking at it from this day it may seem to have been a tiresome wedding trip, of more than one hundred and forty miles in a buggy). For some time Mr. and Mrs. Lappin lived in the little red brick farm house about a mile north of the city on the River Road.