From History of Rock County Wis., page 776 REV. GEORGE F. BRONSON, Pastor Congregational Church; P.O. Clinton Junction*; born January 21, 1821, in Middlebury, New Haven Co., Conn.; was son of Leonard BRONSON, BRONSON died Feb. 16, 1869 in Middlebury, Conn., at the age of 72. Mr. George T. BRONSON commenced his preparatory studies in the Phillips' Academy, entered the seminary at East Windsor, and then attended Yale College, spending seven years in especial study; was ordained at Shelburne Falls, in the valley of the Deerfield, January, 1851; was there fourteen years; was successful in his ministry in that place, building up a growing and prosperous congregation; he had to retire on account of his health; was afterward in the ministry five years in New York, then settled in Lake Co., Ohio, and was there about ten years, and was afterward in Iowa about three years; came to Clinton in September, 1872, and has been the much-beloved Pastor of the Congregational Church in this place ever since. Married, Sept. 30, 1850, C! harlotte M. HOLT, daughter of Thomas HOLT, of Andover, Mass.; have had five children, two died in infancy. Leonard is a member of Beloit College, is a member of the Sophomore Class; Mary, M. is about to graduate at the High School in Beloit; Isaac A. is attending school in Beloit. *Clinton was at first called Clinton Junction by the two railroads that crossed here; it later became Clinton, but the railroads still call it Clinton Junction to this day.