The company initially focused almost exclusively in government bonds.
Both men were short on capital at the time and relied on $15,000 worth of loans from family and friends.
Hatch and Fisk found success as sub-agents for Jay Cooke & Company, popularizing and selling millions of dollars in government war securities in New York and New England.
[1] In 1871, Hatch commissioned a portrait of his family at his house on Park Avenue and 37th Street.
In 1872, he donated a building he owned on 316 Water Street to Jerry McAuley and his wife, Maria.