- S. W. SMITH, President of the Rock County National Bank;
came to Janesville in 1843;
- engaged in mercantile business until 1854; from 1848 to 1854,
he also carried on flouring-mills, and has extensively engaged
in farming ever since he came here; in 1855, he engaged in banking
business, and has been in the same business ever since; connected
with the Rock County Bank at the time of its organization and
has continued with that and its successor, the Rock County National
Bank, ever since; the best evidence of his sagacity as a financier
is the fact that his institution has passed successfully through
all the panics and vicissitudes of hard times.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, pp. 723-724.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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