John Randolph Banks was the son of Orlando Whitney and Caroline Stewart, who died in childbirth. John’s birth name was Franklin Orlando Whitney. His name was changed when adopted by John S Banks and Emily E Piper.

He married Julia M Dunklee on 27 Feb 1861. Their children were Nettie Clara, Edgar James, and Laura Martha, who died shortly after her father. Their son, Edgar James Banks, was the famed professor, author, and archaeologist, who discovered the white statue of King David, and who inspired the Indiana Jones character.

John Randolph Banks suffered ill health after serving in the Union Army during the Civil War in Louisiana. His older half-brother, Alfred Whitney, was a gunmaker at the Springfield Armory in Springfield, Massachusetts

He never saw his birth father after 1850, when Orlando Whitney and many of his older half-siblings migrated to Texas. His oldest half-sister was Ann Whitney, a pioneer school teacher, who died 9 July 1867 while bravely protecting her students during an Indian raid on a log schoolhouse on the Leon River in northeastern Hamilton County, Texas.

John Randolph Banks was the son of Orlando Whitney and Caroline Stewart, who died in childbirth. John’s birth name was Franklin Orlando Whitney. His name was changed when adopted by John S Banks and Emily E Piper.

He married Julia M Dunklee on 27 Feb 1861. Their children were Nettie Clara, Edgar James, and Laura Martha, who died shortly after her father. Their son, Edgar James Banks, was the famed professor, author, and archaeologist, who discovered the white statue of King David, and who inspired the Indiana Jones character.

John Randolph Banks suffered ill health after serving in the Union Army during the Civil War in Louisiana. His older half-brother, Alfred Whitney, was a gunmaker at the Springfield Armory in Springfield, Massachusetts

He never saw his birth father after 1850, when Orlando Whitney and many of his older half-siblings migrated to Texas. His oldest half-sister was Ann Whitney, a pioneer school teacher, who died 9 July 1867 while bravely protecting her students during an Indian raid on a log schoolhouse on the Leon River in northeastern Hamilton County, Texas.