Articles incorporating the Badger State bank (capital $25,000) were recorded.

The evidence

• “July 19, 1853, articles were recorded incorporating the Badger State bank with a capital of $25,000, the incorporators being Edward L. Dimock, William J.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/22-janesville-banking.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 519 / book p. 481

  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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