Biographical Sketch of Artileus V. Banes, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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Artileus V. Banes, M.D., was born near Zanesville, Ohio, February 19,
1845.  He was the youngest of three children, two sons and a daughter,
the latter being the eldest child, and a lady of rare ability and re-
fined culture.  She is the present wife of John Townsend, a prominent
merchant of St. Joseph.  The subject of this sketch received his pri-
mary education in Zanesville, Ohio.  In April, 1858, he came to St.
Joseph with his step-father, Colonel John A. Dolman.  He had the good
fortune to complete his education, taking a classical course, in the
school of E. B. Neely, the present distinguished Superintendent of
Public Instruction in that city.  On leaving school in 1860, he drove
an ox-team to Denver.  He then engaged in mining for some time near
Central City, and subsequently moved to Montana Territory, where, in
1862, he was one of the first to settle in Alder Gulch, near Virginia
City.  His unremitting efforts in the mines were crowned with success,
and he was enabled to return to Missouri in 1864, with sufficient 
means to defray the expenses of a first-class medical education, upon
the pursuit of which he immediately entered.  He first commenced the
study of his profession in the office of Dr. E. B. Forsee, of St.
Joseph.  He subsequently attended Jefferson Medical College, Phila-
delphia, from which he graduated with the degree of M.D., March 7,
1868.  Returning to St. Joseph, he immediately entered upon the 
practice of his profession and soon achieved a reputation for surgical
skill few in the city have attained.  In March, 1873, he married, in
Philadelphia, Miss Bessie Davis, daughter of a resident of that city,
and a lady of rare native ability and elegant culture.  Dr. Banes is
at present, 1881, a member of the faculty and lecturer upon clinical
surgery in St. Joseph Hospital Medical College.

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