King-Skagit County WA Archives Biographies.....Banks, John C. 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Page 415
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     JOHN C. BANKS.  For over twenty years John C. Banks has been selling 
insurance in Portland and has gained a well merited reputation as an 
energetic, wide-awake and progressive business man. He is a native of Grand 
Rapids, Michigan, and a son of John M. and Caroline V. Banks, both of whom are 
deceased. He received a good public school education and in the fall of 1905 
went to Seattle, Washington, where he was engaged in the lumber business and 
also in Skagit county, that state. Later he sold his interests there and, with 
his mother, started east. On the way they stopped in Portland and were so 
impressed with the city that they remained here a week, after which they 
continued their journey. Mr. Banks remained in the east about six months and, 
in April, 1907, returned to Portland, where he has been engaged in the 
insurance business to the present time. He is a member of the well known 
Rogers-Hart-Banks Company, which handles all kinds of insurance, except life 
insurance, and sells surety bonds. During these years he has enjoyed a very 
satisfactory measure of success, which he has earned through his active and 
well directed efforts. Mr. Banks was united in marriage to Miss Gladys 
MacSwiney, who was born in Cheltenham, England. Mr. Banks is independent in 
his political views and is a member of the Arlington Club and the Waverley 
Club. He enjoys a wide acquaintance throughout this section of the valley and 
commands the sincere respect and good will of all who come in contact with 
him. 

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