JOSEPH B. BANNING
DEEP RIVER (SAYBROOK): Judge of Probate
Judge Banning is a native of the town and village where he now resides; he was born December 16, 1840, the only son of Arba H. and Hannah M. Banning. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, learned the trade of shoe making, and was connected as junior partner with the firm of A. H. Banning & Son, until the death of his father in 1880, since which time he has conducted the business alone. At the age of twenty-two he married Miss Ansolette A. Smith, daughter of Charles D. Smith, Esq., of Deep River. Mr. Banning’s father was judge of probate for the district of Saybrook for a period of sixteen years, up to the time of his decease. Mr. J. B. Banning was chosen as his successor, and has thus held the judgeship since 1880. He is a member of the Connecticut Probate Assembly, and has been its secretary and treasurer since the death of Judge West of Rockville. He is also a justice of the peace for the town of Saybrook.
Mr. Banning has been in the boot and shoe trade all his life. In 1886 he erected the building on Main Street, Deep River, which he now occupies both as store and residence. He is a member of the Congregational church, an undoubted republican, and a member of Webb Lodge, I. O. O. F., of Deep River.
Source: Illustrated Popular Biography of Connecticut - 1891, Compiled and Published by J. A. Spalding, Hartford Conn., Press of the Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company, 1891
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