From the book History of Walworth County Wisconsin, by Albert Clayton 
Beckwith, publ. 1912 - Page 565
 
SOLMOUS WAKELY was born at New Milford, Connecticut, March 17, 1793; was a 
farmer and a shoemaker and lawyer; went to Cortland county; married Hannah 
THOMPSON in 1818; from Erie county, New York, to Lorain county, Ohio, and 
thence to Whitewater in 1843; member of committee on bill of rights in first 
constitutional convention; member of county board 1851-5; member of Assembly 
in 1855 without opposition, in 1857 defeating Willard STEBBINS.  He died at 
Madison, January 12, 1867.

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