1845-1917
Adoniram Judson Banker
Physician Ohio/Indiana OH/IN
The 1860 census records of Washington Township in Shelby County, Indiana note a citizen named John Banker, age 42, as the head of household, a farmer with real estate valued at $4,600 and a personal estate of $975. In his household is his wife, Elizabeth, age 40, and five children. The second child listed is Adoniram age 17. Later census records list Adoniram Judson Banker with a birthdate of January 8, 1845 in Ohio and a date of death as April 23, 1917 in Columbus, Indiana.[1] He married Mary H. Boyd on January 4, 1870, in Clifford, Bartholomew County, Indiana, and eventually graduated from Bellevue Medical College in Manhattan, NY, in 1880.
Twenty years later, in the 1880 federal census, Adoniram Judson Banker, aged 34, is a physician living as a boarder in the house of Marsall Harker. His wife, Mary, aged 30, is with him as well as a daughter Blanch who was 5 years old.
The Columbus Evening Republican reported on July 8, 1890,
The New City Hospital. The large brick residence at No. 720 Franklin street, recently purchased by Dr. A. J. Banker to be used as a city hospital, has been remodeled and placed in a first-class condition, and is today open to the doctor’s patients…. When competed, this building will be an ornament to that part of the city and not easily distinguished from a residence in that locality, as one of the chief objects has been to have the institute appear pleasant, home-like, and attractive.
On April 23, 1917, the newspapers announced that “Dr. Adoniram J. Banker, 71, is dead at his home here today. For several years he was a professor surgery and obstetrics at Central Medical college, Indianapolis. He was educated at Indiana Medical college and in Berlin, Germany. His church membership was Baptist.”[2]
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[1] https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/banker/271/
[2] Ibid.