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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  JOHN T. BANKS, Druggist, Decatur, son of John F. and Frances E. (Roberts)
Banks, was born in Somerville, Morgan County, Ala., March 28, 1837; was reared
in Somerville, lived with and was educated by his uncle, John T. Rather, (who
was a captain in the War of 1812); received his education in Decatur, and at the
age of sixteen entered the drug business with J. W. Cain, and afterward with T.
F. Scruggs. In 1858 he purchased the business and conducted it until 1861, when
he was broken up by the war. The first Federal force which entered Decatur
burned the bridge, and destroyed his stock. He enlisted in the Sixth Alabama
Regiment soon after the battle of Shiloh, and was immediately detailed on duty
in the hospital department as a pharmacist. He spent his first eighteen months
at Okolona, Miss., thence was sent to Meridian, and just before the close of the
war, was returned to Okolona, where he surrendered in 1865. He walked home and
opened another drug store in Decatur, and has followed the business there ever
since, excepting two years.

  Mr. Banks was appointed Notary Public and ex-officio Justice of the Peace. In
May, 1887, he sold his drug store to Dr. T. H. Hughes, and is now erecting a
handsome three-story building for a drug store, on the corner of Oak and Cain
streets. He is a stockholder in the Decatur Land, Furnace & Improvement Company.

  Mr. Banks was married in December, 1868, to Miss Maria L. Long, at Tuscumbia.
They have four children, viz.—Fannie Lee, John Ellis, Margaret L. and Mary Fields.

  Mr. Banks and wife are members of the Presbyterian Church, and he is a Free
Mason and a member of the City Council.

  In November, 1886, Mr. Banks was a prime mover in locating and obtaining stock
for the Decatur Charcoal and Chemical Works, and neglected his business for a
time in the interests of that institution.

  John F. Banks, the father of our subject, was born in Culpeper County, Va., in
1797, and his wife in 1815. They came to Alabama about 1828, and settled in
Morgan County. He was a tanner by trade, and probably the first man in that
business in the county. He afterward became a druggist in Somerville and died at
the residence of his son in Newburg, Franklin County, in 1884. He was a soldier
in the War of 1812. He reared a family of six children.


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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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