The firm of Hoyt & Co., private bankers, opened business in Janesville.

The evidence

• “Hoyt & Co., private bankers. This firm, which opened business in January, 1857, moved in March of that year into the office formerly occupied by the Janesville City bank in the Lappin's block.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/22-janesville-banking.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 520 / book p. 482

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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