Cache-Salt Lake County UT Archives Biographies.....Bankhead, John H. 1874 - 
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Author: S. J. Clarke, Publisher

JOHN H. BANKHEAD.

    John H. Bankhead, a well known real estate dealer of Logan, who has handled
much property during his connection with this business, was born at Wellsville,
Utah, in October, 1874, a son of Heber and Rachel (Haslam) Bankhead and a
grandson of John H. Bankhead, who was a native of Alabama and came to Utah in
1849, when the work of progress and development had scarcely been begun in this
state. He took up his abode at Willard, where he gave his attention to farming
and stock raising. His son Heber was reared to adult age there and he also
became a farmer. He removed to Wellsville with the first settlers of that place,
accompanying his father, John H. Bankhead. Father and son were progressive
citizens and assisted in building canals and roads and promoting all other
important public works. Heber Bankhead became an elder of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints.

    John H. Bankhead acquired his early education in the public schools of
Wellsville and afterward attended the Utah Agricultural College at Logan. He
then took up the profession of teaching at Wellsville and devoted two seasons to
the work of the schoolroom, after which he was called to fill a mission to
Kentucky and Florida, the conference also including Georgia. He thus labored
from 1899 until 1901, when he returned to Utah, and it was subsequent to this
time that he was a student and teacher at the Utah Agricultural College. Later
he was with the Consolidated Wagon & Machine Company as cashier and bookkeeper
and he next entered banking circles as an employe of the National Bank of the
Republic at Salt Lake City. He afterward joined the Thatcher Brothers' bank as
teller, was promoted to assistant cashier and later to the position of cashier,
thus serving for ten years or until 1916, when he retired. At that date he
purchased a large ranch in Montana, which he afterward divided and sold in small
tracts. He has since been engaged in the real estate business and has handled
considerable property.

    In April, 1899, Mr. Bankhead was married to Miss Annie Mickelsen, a daughter
of Neils and Laura (Ingeman) Mickelsen, the former a native of Denmark, while
the latter was born in Norway. Mr. and Mrs. Bankhead have become parents of ten
children, nine of whom are yet living. Such in brief is the history of John H.
Bankhead, who in both the paternal and maternal lines is a representative of old
and honored pioneer families of Utah. His maternal grandfather was James Haslam,
who carried the message to Brigham Young from Mountain Meadows and returned with
the message of President Young to John D. Lee. Both families shared in the
hardships and privations of pioneer life in Utah and through the intervening
years their representatives have carried forward the work of development and
improvement. Mr. Bankhead is now an alert and progressive business man who in
the real estate field is contributing to the further upbuilding of his state.


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UTAH SINCE STATEHOOD
HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL

ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME IV
CHICAGO-SALT LAKE: THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1920


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