John Inman & Co. started the first stage, making regular trips from Racine to "East Wisconsin City" during the summer.

The evidence

• “Sexton, (now of Sextonville,) and removed his goods into another house, which had been erected about eighty rods from the "tavern," which afforded more room for the replenished stock of the new firm. During this year, (1836,) John Inman & Co. started the first stage. It made its regular trips from Racine to " East Wiscofsin City" during the summer;”

  1856-history-of-rock-county/24-rock.md, PDF p. 161 / book p. 145

  Guernsey, Orrin, and Josiah F. Willard, editors. History of Rock County, and Transactions of the Rock County Agricultural Society and Mechanics' Institute. Janesville, Wis.: William M. Doty & Brother, 1856. Cornell University Library via the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/cu31924028871593.

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