BANNISTER, P. S.

BANNISTER, BENTLEY

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Date: 10/2/2001 at 19:59:29

From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879) Pages 669-697
Biographical Sketches of Clinton Residents

P. S. BANNISTER, of the firm of Bannister Bros., proprietors of the Oriental Mills, is a native of Lawrence Co., N. Y.; born in 1841; when 15 years of age, his parents removed to Whiteside Co., Ill., where he lived until coming to Clinton, in 1870; he engaged in the grain and pork trade; the following year engaged in the milling business; they do both custom and merchant business, and have built up a good trade. Mr. Bannister enlisted in the 75th Regt., Ill. V.I., Co. C; served in the Army of the Cumberland, and was in every battle of the regiment, among them, Perryville, Resaca, Chickamauga, Stone River, Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge and Atlanta. He went out as Sergeant of the company; was promoted to First Lieutenant. In 1877, Mr. Bannister married Miss Sadie Bentley, a native of Syracuse, N. Y.