James Andrew Banks

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Husband James Andrew Banks ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 17 Jan 1828 3
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           Died: 1 Aug 1867 - Nevada 3 4
         Buried:  - San Francisco, CA

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         Father: David Banks (1798-1870) 2 3 5
         Mother: Jane Thompson "Jean" McAlister (1803-1880) 3 5

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General Notes: Husband - James Andrew Banks

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He went to California in 1853. He served in the legislature of that state two terms and in the state senate one term. He came within one vote of being elected U. S. Senator. He was elected first president of the Young Men's Christian Association of San Francisco. He was killed by Indians in Nevada, while managing mining interests there.

Resolving to make his own way in the world, he left home, and after living for short periods in various places teaching school, or working at carpentering, he went to California about the time the "gold fever" was at its height. In the excitement which prevailed during the reign of the vigilance committee he took an active part. At a time when many who had been church members in the East were casting aside their religion, he united with the First Presbyterian (Dr. Anderson's) Church, and was elected first president of the Young Men's Christian Association of San Francisco. He grew rapidly in influence, and was elected five times to the Legislature and three times to the Senate of California, and was Speaker of both branches of the legislature. He afterwards moved to Nevada, as superintendent of a mining company; was a member of the convention which framed the Constitution, and at the time of his death was Speaker of the State Assembly.
He was spending a few days on a visit to friends at Fort Winfield Scott, in Paradise Valley, in the northwestern part of the State. One day, when up the Humboldt River, only a short distance from the fort, he was waylaid and shot by three Indians. His body was recovered and subsequently removed to San Francisco for burial, where the Young Men's Christian Association have erected a monument to his memory.

1 —, History of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys (Philadelphia, PA: Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886), Pg 830.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., A History of the Juniata Valley and Its People (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1913), Pg 1197.

3 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 107.

4 —, History of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys (Philadelphia, PA: Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886), Pg 831.

5 —, History of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys (Philadelphia, PA: Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886), Pg 829, 835.