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Bankhead, John Pine

naval officer, was born Aug. 3, 1821, in South Carolina. He entered the navy as a midshipman; was made a lieutenant in 1852; commander in 1862; and captain in 1866. He died April 27, 1867, in Arabia.

Banks, Eugene

lawyer, poet. He is a successful lawyer of Chicago, Ill., and the author of a volume of poems entitled Where Brooks Go Softly.

Banks, Gardner

soldier, was born in Waltham, Mass. At the beginning of the civil war he raised a company for the sixteenth Massachusetts regiment, in which he rose to the rank of colonel in 1862. Gen. Hooker said, in a letter to Governor Andrew: There is no doubt but at Glendale the sixteenth Massachusetts saved the army. He died July 9, 1871, in Waltham, Mass.

Banks, John

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1793 in Juniata county, Pa. He received a classical education; studied law; came to the bar in 1819, and settled in the western part of the state.

He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1831 to 1836, when he resigned to accept the appointment of president judge of the third judicial district of the state. He died April 3, 1864, in Reading.

Banks, Linn

congressman, was born in Virginia. He was for twenty successive years speaker of the house of delegates of that state. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1838 to 1842.

He was drowned Feb. 24, 1842, in Madison county, Va.

Banks, Louis Albert

clergyman, was born in 1855 in Oregon. He is a prominent methodist clergyman and the author of The Saloon Keeper's Ledger, a Series of Temperance Discourses; The Fisherman and his Friends; Common Folks' Religion; Revival Quiver, a Record of Revival Campaigns; The People's Christ; White Slaves, or the Oppression of the Worthy Poor; The Honeycombs of Life; and Christ and His Friends.

Banks, Mary Ross

author, was born March 4, 1846, in Macon, Ga. Her literary fame was attained principally through her book entitled Bright Days on the Old Plantation, which was published in 1882.

Banks, Maud

actress, after a course of study and training at the New York school of acting, went upon the stage in 1886, making her first appearance at Portsmouth, N. H., in the character of Parthenia in Ingomar.

Banneker, Benjamin

astronomer, was born Nov. 9, 1731, at Ellicott's Mills, Md. He was an astronomer and mathematician of African descent, who assisted in the original survey of the District of Columbia and published an astronomical almanac 1792-1806. He died in October, 1806, in Baltimore, Md.

Banning, Henry B

general, lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 10, 1834, in Mount Vernon, Ohio. He received academic education; studied and practiced law at Mount Vernon, Ohio, until 1861, when he enlisted as a private soldier; rose to the rank of brevet major-general. He represented Knox county in the Ohio legislature in 1866 and 1867; removed to Cincinnati in the year 1869, where he resumed the practice of law. He was elected to the forty-third, forty-fourth and forty-fifth congresses.

Baraga, Friedric

missionary, author, was born June 29, 1797. He was a. Roman Catholic missionary who came to America in 1830 from Austria, and became bishop of Sault Ste. Marie in 1852.

He devoted himself to mission work among the Chippewa or Ojibway Indians, and beside writing several books in their tongue prepared a Grammar and Dictionary of the Otchipewe Language. He died Jan. 19, 1868, in Marquette, Mich.

Barbe, Waitman

lecturer, journalist, author, poet, was born Nov. 19, 1863, in Morgantown, W. Va. He is the editor of the Daily State Journal of Parkersburg, W. Va., and the author of Ashes and Incense, a volume of poems containing gems of rare genius; and a volume of short stories, entitled In the Virginias.

He has also attained prominence as a lecturer before schools and colleges on literary and educational subjects.