Juniata County PA Archives Obituaries.....Banks, Ephraim January 6, 1871 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Donald Buncie http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00034.html#0008389 March 28, 2023, 10:03 pm Juniata sentinel. (Mifflintown, Pa.): January 11, 1871 At his residence in Lewistown, Pa., Jan. 6th, 1871, Hon. Ephraim Banks, in the 80th year of his age. Judge Banks was born four miles east of this place, Jan. 17, 1791, and was therefore at the time of his demise, eleven days less than eighty years of age. He married and settled in this place, and in 1818 was Commissioned and appointed by Gov. Findley, Prothonatary of Mifflin county. While in discharge of the duties of his office he studied law and was admitted to practice in 1822. He was a member of the Legislature of the terms of 1826-27 and 28 ; was elected a member of the Convention that reformed the Constitution of Pennsylvania in 1838; elected Auditor General of the State in 1851; re-elected 1854 ; elected Associate Judge of Mifflin county Oct. 1866, which office he held at the time of his decease... File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/juniata/obits/b/banks1611nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/pafiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb