 Together the two were organising a financial company of their own.Blair was left with no money after the collapse of Lee, Higginson, but he managed to obtain $50,000 from Joseph and Edward Ryerson of the Ryerson (company), John and Douglas Stuart of Quaker Oats and Roger Shepherd.Their firm was opened on January 8, 1935 as Blair, Bonner & Company with an office in the Marshall Field Building at 135 South LaSalle Street in Chicago.