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only were its officers superior bankers, but some of them rose to 

 high levels as statesmen and patriots. The Mexican War found 

 Indiana without funds. The State Bank furnished them freely 

 and liberally, and before they were demanded. Again, when the 

 Civil War found us with empty treasury and no tax levy, it was 

 one of these same bankers who furnished the state with funds. 

 Such men as Hugh McCuUoch, J. F. D. Lanier, John Sering, David 

 S. Bonner, George W. Rathbone, Demos Deming, Calvin Fletcher, 

 J. M. Ray, Samuel Merrill, James Morrison, Ebenezer Dumont, 

 Horatio Chapin, Samuel Hanna, W. R. McKeen, Mason C. Fitch, 

 James Winslow, Omer Toucey, Hervey Bates, to mention only a 

 few, were not merely ordinarj^ bankers. They were the founders of 

 the commerce of a commonwealth. 



