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SOME HISTORY OF THE BANK. Was Incorporated in Territorial TimesThe Run of 1849. There is probably no man better known in Wisconsin than John L. Mitchell, president of the bank. He is a son of Alexder Mitchell, the one pioneer of Milwaukee to divide honors with John Plankinton as regards the work done toward making of the hamlet of Milwaukee a great city. The concern of which he was the head, the Wisconsin Marine and Fire Insurance company bank, was incorporated by the territorial legislature of Wisconsin in 1839, the charter being granted to Alexander Mitchell and George Smith, young Scotchmen just arrived from Aberdeen. The provisions of their charter authorized them to insure against fire and marine losses, to receive deposits, issue certificates and lend money. But in view of the sorry figure cut by the Bank of Milwaukee and the two other banks chartered in 1837 a proviso was add. ed that the company should not do a banking business, meaning, perhaps, if it meant anything, that it should not do such of business as other western banks had done, which consisted in issuing an unlimited amount of currency and failing whenever it was presented in any large amount for redemption. Messrs. Smith and Mitchell confined themselves trictly to the business