Mr. [Pease] helped organize the Rock County bank organized as a state bank in 1855.

The evidence

• “Mr. Pease was interested in the establishment of the Rock County National Bank of Janesville, which was at first organized as a state bank in 1855. He drew up its articles of association and obtained among the citizens a subscription for the amount of capital stock required to found the bank on a secure”

  1908-brown-rock-county/32-courts-and-legal-profession.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 241 / book p. 743

  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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