The Badger State Bank went out of business.

The evidence

• “McCrea and Bell were Milwaukee men who started banks in different W^isconsin cities. After the institution of the First National and Rock County banks the business of the Badger State Bank fell off and it went out of business in 1857. The Janesville City Bank, operated by H.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/26-history-of-janesville.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 37 / book p. 551

  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.

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