Background
Banks, Louis Albert was born on November 12, 1855 in Corvallis, Oregon, United States. Son of Lebbius Irwin and Mary (Hurlburt) Banks.
Banks, Louis Albert was born on November 12, 1855 in Corvallis, Oregon, United States. Son of Lebbius Irwin and Mary (Hurlburt) Banks.
Educated Philomath College and Boston University. (Doctor of Divinity, Mount Union College, Ohio, 1891. Doctor of Laws, Philomath College, Oregon, 1918).
Entered Mechanical Engineering ministry, 1879. Pastor Independence Avenue Church, Kansas City, 1909-1911. Evangelist, in union evangelistic campaigns, since 1911.
National lecturer for the Anti-Saloon League of America, in World Prohibition movement, since 1913.
Also national lecturer for same. Prohibition candidate for government of Massachusetts, 1893.
Author: The People's Christ, 1891. The White Slaves, 1892.
The Revival Quiver, 1893.
Anecdotes and Morals, 1894. Common Folks’ Religion, 1894. Heavenly Trade Winds, 1895.
Christ and His Friends, 1896.
Paul and His Friends. The Fisherman and His Friends, 1897.
Seven Times Around Jericho, 1897. Hero Tales from Sacred Story, 1897.
Live Boys in Oregon, 1897.
The Christ Brotherhood, 1897. Heroic Personalities, 1898. The Unexpected Christ, 1898.
The Christian Gentleman, 1898.
John and His Friends, 1899. My Young Manitoba, 1899; The Great Sinners of the Bible, 1899.
Chats with Young Christians, 1900. A Manly Boy, 1900; David and His Friends, 1900.
The Lord’s Arrows, 1900.
Fresh Bait for Fishers of Men, 1900. Poetry and Morals, 1900. Hidden Wells of Comfort, 1901.
The Great Saints of the Bible, 1901.
The King’s Stewards, 1902. Life of Review T. DeWitt Talmage, Doctor of Divinity, 1902.
Youth of Famous Americans, 1902. The Great Portraits of the Bible, 1903.
Soul-Winning Stories, 1903.
Thirty-one Revival Sermons, 1904. The Great Promises of the Bible, 1905. Capital Stories of Famous Americans, 1905.
Spurgeon’s Illustrative Anecdotes, 1906.
The Problems of Youth, 1909. The World’s Childhood, 1910.
The Great Themes of the Bible, 1911. Ammunition for the Final Drive on Booze, 1917.
The Winds of God, 1920.
The New Ten Commandments, 1922. Wonderful Bible Conversions, 1923. Dramatic Stories of Jesus, 1924.
Bible Soul Winners, 1924.
Christ’s Soul Searching Parables, 1925. Sermons for Reviving, 1928, and others
Home: Roseburg, Oregon
Married Mary V. Millhollen, 1877 (died 1882). Married second, Jessie F. Ainsworth, January 1, 1884 (died 1919). Married 3d, Florence Aiken, July 21, 1920.
Children: Maud Ethel, Mary Fay.