He was an old man, and a good one; had been a baker, and knew little of banking as a business.

This part of his general business was managed exclusively by his son-in-law, Henry D.Bacon, who was young, handsome, and generally popular.
How he was drawn into that affair of the Ohio & Mississippi road I have no means of knowing, except by hearsay.

Their business in New York was done through the American Exchange Bank, and through Duncan, Sherman & Co.

As we were rival houses, the St.Louis partners removed our account from the American Exchange Bank to the Metropolitan Bank; and, as Wadsworth & Sheldon had failed, I was instructed to deal in time bills, and in European exchange, with Schnchardt & Gebhard, bankers in Nassau Street.
In California the house of Page, Bacon & Co.

was composed of the same partners as in St.Louis, with the addition of Henry Haight, Judge Chambers, and young Frank Page.