BANKS, Marjorie

MARJORIE BANKS
New Berlin, NY, Class of 1909

Identification on photo: MARJORIE BANKS
Photo taken: Talbot Studio, New Berlin, NY 1909
Purchased: Aug 2018 Madison-Bouckville NY Antiques Week

Marjorie E. Banks born 15 October 1890 in Edmeston NY to parents Charles Lynn Banks (1865-1938) and Jessie Steere (1870-1939).

She is found on the 1910 Census living in New Berlin with her parents who owned and operated the Eagle Hotel in that town.

1910 Census > NY > Chenango > New Berlin > North Main Street
BANKS, Charles L., head, 45, born in NY of NY parents, landlord at hotel
BANKS, Jessie S., wife, 40, born in NY of NY parents, landlady at hotel
BANKS, Ray S., son, 20, born in NY, student at college
BANKS, Marjorie, daughter, 19, born in NY, student at college

She attended Syracuse University after High School.

2 Dec 1917, she married Arthur T. Kirby (1892-1938, son of Edward Kirby and Effie Cable), a chemist at Nestle Foods.

1920 Census > NY > Chenango > New Berlin > North Main Street
BANKS, Charles L., head, 54, landlord at hotel
BANKS, Jessie S., wife, 49
KIRBY, Marjorie, daughter, 29
KIRBY, Arthur T., son-in-law, 27, chemist at Nestle Foods
KIRBY, Mary B., granddaughter, 3mo.

1930 Census > NY > Delaware County > Sidney > River Street
KIRBY, Arthur T., head, 38, contracting
KIRBY, Marjorie B., wife, 39, no occupation
KIRBY, Mary B., daughter, 10

Daughter Mary Banks Kirby was born in Utica in 1919. She also attended Syracuse University. This photo of her is from the yearbook of 1940. 

Mary had three husbands, Joseph Lord (b. 1906, and had two sons by him), Robert Merle Stevens (1917-1972) and James Paul Landre (1908-1995). She lived until 2006.

Marjorie's brother Ray attended college at Cornell and practiced as a veterinarian in Otsego and Rhinebeck, NY.

Marjorie died at age 75 of leukemia, 18 Sep 1966 in Sayre PA at Robert Packer Hospital, but was a resident at that time of Bainbridge, Chenango county, NY. She is buried in New Berlin at St. Andrews Cemetery near her parents.