WI BIO - Jackson Co - ROSSMAN, George P.

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, vol I, p 418

George P. ROSSMAN, lawyer, Merrillan [Alma Township, Jackson County, 
Wisconsin], was born 14 August 1856 in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin. He 
studied law for eighteen months, and also read law two years under R. J. 
McBRIDE, at Neillsville [incorporated in 1882; located in Clark County, 
Wisconsin]. George P. ROSSMAN moved to Merrillan [Jackson County], 01 May 
1881, and started an office for himself. He is a member of the Royal Arcanum 
at Neillsville.

[Merrillan was the point of interchange for the West Wisconsin Railroad 
(which reached Merrillan in 1869) and the Green Bay & Minnesota Railroad. 
Both railroads are shown on an 1878 map of Jackson County. The West 
Wisconsin Railroad linked Merrillan with St. Paul, Minnesota, 100 miles away.]

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