Westmoreland County PA Archives Biographies.....Banks, C. W. May 11, 1852 - 
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C. W. BANKS, M. D., a well-read and successful physician of Livermore and
medical examiner for the relief department of the Pennsylvania railroad, is a
son of Dr. Morgan R. and Nancy J. (Long) Banks and was born at Livermore,
Westmoreland county, Pa., May 1, 1852. His great-grand-father, Banks, was a
native of Maryland, where his son Joshua Banks, grandfather, was born. Joshua
Banks migrated to Derry township where he soon quit farming and engaged in the
mercantile business. He married Catharine Rees, a native of Wales, who bore him
seven children, of whom but two are living: Dr. Morgan R. and Eleanor Creery, of
Cherry Tree, Indiana county, Pa. Dr. Morgan R. Banks was born in Derry township
March 5, 1815, read medicine with Dr. Thomas Mahon of Indiana county, now of
Allegheny City, and graduated from the Allopathic Medical school of Cleveland,
O., in 1851. Immediately after graduation he located at Livermore where he has
practiced medicine ever since.

   He is an experienced and successful physician, and but few members of his
profession in the county surpass him in years of practice. He was married to
Nancy J. Long and to them have been born four children: Jessie May, wife of
Oscar J. M cCreery, a contractor of McKeesport, Pa., Dr. C. W ., Samuel M.,
deceased, and Clara, deceased.

   Mrs. Banks is a daughter of James Long, who came to Derry township from
county Derry, Ireland. He was born about the time of the Revolutionary war and
married Miss Fair of Indiana county, Pa., by whom he had six children.

   Dr. C. W. Banks was reared at Livermore and received his education in the
public and select schools of that place and Blairsville academy, when the latter
institution was under the charge of Prof. A. J. Bolar. He read medicine with his
father and entered the college of Physicians and Surgeons where he remained one
year. He then (1881) went to Starling Medical college, Columbus, O., where he
pursued his medical studies till 18S2 when he entered Toledo Medical college,
Toledo, O., from which institution he was graduated in April, 1883, as
valedictorian of his class. After graduation he located at Livermore where he
has been engaged in the practice of his profession till the present time. With
his wide range of medical reading, with the advantages derived from prosecuting
professional studies in three leading medical colleges of the land, and with
seven years of actual and successful practice, he is amply qualified to win
success in the future. He is exceedingly affable and courteous and is a man of
fine personal appearance.

   June, 1881, Dr. C. W. Banks united in marriage with Ida M. Walkinshaw,
daughter of James Walkinshaw of this county. Their union has been blessed with
one child, Willie R., who was born September 23, 1882.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from
Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Compiled and Published by John M. Gresham & Co.
Samuel T. Wiley, Chief Assistant
1890


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