Brief Life History of John Robert
When John Robert Banks was born on 8 July 1857, in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States, his father, Joseph Banks, was 36 and his mother, Charlotte Eyre, was 27. He married Jane Losaine Rollins on 10 January 1898, in Minersville, Beaver, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He died on 27 November 1946, in Minersville, Beaver, Utah, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Minersville Cemetery, Minersville, Beaver, Utah, United States.
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- John Robert Banks, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Legacy NFS Source: John Robert Banks - Government record: Death record or certificate: birth-name: John Robert Banks
- John R Banks, "Utah, County Marriages, 1871-1941"
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1859
Historical Boundaries: 1859: Beaver, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Beaver, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Bank 5, with excrescent -s. The final -s may occasionally represent a plural form, but it is most commonly an arbitrary addition made after the main period of surname formation, perhaps under the influence of patronymic forms with a possessive -s.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Bruacháin ‘descendant of Bruachán’, a byname for a large-bellied person. The English form was chosen because of a mistaken association of the Gaelic name with bruach ‘bank’. Compare Bank 6.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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