. "Early in the spring of 1835, John Tillson, jr., then of Hillsboro; Thomas Mather, then of Kaskaskia; Godfrey Gilman & Co., then of Alton; Theophilus W. Smith, then one of the judges of the Supreme Court; and Samuel Wiggins, of Cincinnati, made arrangements to obtain large sums of money in the eastern cities, principally in New York and Connecticut, to be invested in this stock." . . .