Caswell and Clapp started the first bank in Fort Atkinson.

The evidence

• “CASWELL AND CLAPP START FIRST BANK 'N FORT ATKINSON In 1857 Mr. Joseph D.”

  1900-caswell-reminiscences/10-politics-and-congress.md, PDF pp. 3–27

  Caswell, Lucien Bonaparte. The Reminiscences of the Hon. L. B. Caswell. Written at Fort Atkinson, Wis., 1914–1916; four-column newspaper reprint, newspaper and date unidentified. University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries.

  Grade A: Found on a page of one of our sources