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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  REV. JOHN MONRO BANISTER, D. D., the son of John Monro and Mary Burton
(Bolling) Banister, was born at Battersea, near Petersburg, Va.

  His father, a native of that city, was educated at Princeton College, N. J.,
and was the son of Col. John Banister, who was educated in England, and bred to
the law at Temple Bar.

  He was a Burgess of the Assembly, and, afterward. a distinguished member of
the Convention of 1776. In 1778-9, he was a member of Congress from Virginia, at
New York and at Philadelphia; and in September, visited headquarters as a member
of the Committee of Arrangement. He was one of the framers and signers of the
Articles of Confederation. His father, a wealthy and distinguished scientist of
England, in one of his botanical excursions, near the Falls of the Roanoke, fell
from a precipice and was killed. As a naturalist, he was esteemed not inferior
to Bartram.

  Col. John Banister married, first, Mary, daughter of Col. Theoderick Bland,
Sr., and an aunt of John Randolph of Roanoke. His second wife, the grandmother
of our subject, was Anne Blair, sister of Judge Blair of the Federal Court.

  The children of this marriage were—Theoderick Blair and John Monro. The latter
married Mary Burton Augusta Bolling, daughter of Robert Bolling, of Centre Hill,
Petersburg, Va.

  William C. Banister, their oldest son, fell bravely defending his native city,
on the 9th of June, 1864.

  Robert Bolling Banister, a graduate of the Medical School of the University of
Virginia, entered the Navy, as Surgeon, and died in Petersburg in the year  1843.

  The youngest son. Rev. John Monro Banister, D. D., was reared in Petersburg.
Va., and educated at Princeton College, New Jersey, where he graduated in the
class of 1840, and was honored as its valedictorian. He read law under Judge
Lomax, of Fredericksburg, Va., and was admitted to the bar in 1842; after which,
determining to enter the ministry, he graduated at the Episcopal Theological
Seminary, at Alexandria, Va.

  In 1848 he married Mary Louisa, a daughter of Gen. William H. Brodnax, a
distinguished attorney of Dinwiddie County. The same year, he moved to South
Alabama, and after spending ten years of his ministry at Greensboro, he moved to
Huntsville in November, 1860, and has continued to be the Rector of the Church
of the Nativity since that time.


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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART IV.
MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA,
TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE.


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