of
Muscatine County Iowa
1911
| History of Muscatine County Iowa 1911 | |
Source: History of Muscatine County Iowa, Volume I, 1911, page 405
THEN CAME ISETT & BREWSTER. Isett & Brewster were the followers and rivals of Greene & Stone, and had in Muscatine a successful career. William Brewster died while a partner and was succeeded by his son, William Cullen Brewster. Colonel Isett went to New York in 1865, I think, formed the firm of Isett, Kerr & Company, and for a time did a large and profitable business.
They became involved in the speculative fever of those wild days and had a short career. Colonel Isett, to avoid bankruptcy proceedings, went to Montreal to make his home and spent the remainder of his life there, returning to Muscatine but once for a brief visit.
William C. Brewster, his partner in 1861, became the first cashier of the Merchants' Exchange Bank upon the reorganization of that concern but soon moved to Davenport, where he made his home for some years. He subsequently went to New York, became a director in the Second National Bank, and finally organized and was the first president of the Plaza Bank, one of the most successful of the smaller uptown banks. His death occurred in New York in 1900.
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