Other townsmen, to the number of twenty or thirty, put down their names for a few shares.

It was from New York, however, that the largest subscriptions came; and it was New York shareholders, voting by proxy, who elected the Board of Directors, and determined the choice of officers.

Judge Bigelow was elected President, and a Mr.Joshua King, from New York, Cashier.

The tellers and book-keepers were selected from among our own people.
The Clinton Bank and the new mills went into operation about the same time.

Years of prosperity followed.