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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922)

GEORGE HEARTSILL BANKS.
    Since 1921 G. Heartsill Banks has been superintendent of the Parkin schools.
He was born in Raines. Tennessee, on the 15th of February, IS93, a son of W. L.
and Lucy (Heartsill) Banks. For several generations the Banks family has resided
in America, progenitors of the family in this country having come from England
in 1722, locating in Elbert county. Georgia. The father, W. L. Banks, has for
many years engaged in farming and is now residing in retirement in Hickory
Ridge, this state, at the age of fifty-two years. He has always been prominent
in the public life of the communities in which he resided. He is a stanch
advocate of education and is a member of the board of directory of the State
Agricultural School. On the 31st of December, 1890, at Marshall, Texas, was
celebrated the marriage of Mr. Banks to Miss Lucy Heartsill, whose demise
occurred in 1919. at the age of forty-seven years. The maternal ancestors came
from Holland in 1795, members of this family having been prominent in American
history for some five generations. To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Banks four
children were born, three boys and one girl, but one boy and the girl have died.
George H., whose name initiates this review, was the eldest of the family.

    In the acquirement of his early education George H. Banks attended the
country schools of Shelby county, Tennessee, and for one year attended the
Parham School at Benton, this state. He took a preparatory course in the
Fitzgerald & Clark School at Trenton, Tennessee, and was a student at the
University of Arkansas from 1910 to 1911. In 1914 he was graduated from the
University of Missouri, at Columbia, that state, with the B. S. degree.
Subsequently Mr. Banks took postgraduate work in the University of Wisconsin. In
1914 he started his career as an educator, accepting a position as teacher at
Bolton College, Brunswick, Tennessee, a position in which he was active one
year. At the termination of that time he went to Villisca, Iowa, as principal of
the schools at that point, and he remained there until 1917. He was engaged in
extension work for the University of Arkansas during 1917 and 1918, and was in
the service of the United States navy for eight months during the World war.
From 1919 to 1920 he was engaged in farming in Cross county, Arkansas, and on
the 1st of January, 1921, he came to Parkin as superintendent of schools, in
which position he is now active. He is well fitted to carry out the duties
devolving upon him in this capacity, and although being in charge but a short
time he has brought the school to a high state of efficiency. The school is now
overcrowded, having an enrollment of three hundred and eighty-seven pupils and
facilities for caring for but two hundred and fifty. Students come to this
school from a radius of ten miles, making the trip in a bus each day, the bus
being operated for their convenience at a nominal charge. The high school is
accredited and the students may matriculate in any university in the country.
Mr. Banks is not only active in educational affairs, but is a director in the
Arkansas Cooperative Marketing Association for Cotton. He is likewise
commissioner of the Parkin Road Improvement District Association and on the
executive committee of the Cross County Farm Bureau.

    On the 7th of July, 1917, occurred the marriage of Mr. Banks to Miss
Gertrude Brodrick, daughter of E. G. Brodrick of Villisca, Iowa. To their union
two boys have been born: David F., three years of age: and William Love, one
year old.

    The religious faith of the family is that of the Methodist church, and Mr.
Banks has been a teacher in the Sunday school for years. Fraternally he is
identified with Parkin Lodge, No. 680, F. & A. M., of Parkin, and along strictly
professional lines he holds membership in the Arkansas State Educational
Association and the Cross County Educational Association. He is one of Parkin's
most public-spirited and progressive citizens, and every man who knows him is
his friend. He well merits the position he has attained as an educator and no
man stands higher in this community for integrity and sterling worth.


Additional Comments:
Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922


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