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Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Bannister, A. W. (Albert Walton), 1851-1918
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Description area
Dates of existence
1851-1918
History
Albert Walton Bannister was born in September 1851 in Oakland, Ontario.
He was an educator. He graduated from Victoria University, Ontario (B.A., 1878; M.A., 1886). He served as Principal of St. Francis College in Richmond, Quebec. In 1892, he moved to California, where he spent the rest of his life. He was a professor at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
In 1880, he married Jessie Victoria Young (1858–1936). He died on April 30, 1918, in La Verne, Los Angeles County, California.