Jas P. Banks
Company Names, addresses, dates: 1
  James P. Banks, 3 North Sycamore Street, Petersburg VA (1893-1913)
  James P. Banks, 6 North Sycamore Street, Petersburg VA (1915-1920)
  James P. Banks Drug Corp., 6 North Sycamore Street, Petersburg VA (1921-1931)
  Banks Drug Store, 6 North Sycamore Street, Petersburg VA (1933-1935)
Notes:
James Pae Banks (1859-1925)2
was listed in the 1882 Petersburg city directory as a drug clerk at
Joseph Carr's drugstore.
He's listed in the 1886-1891 city directories as a drug clerk at
E.R. Beckwith's drugstore.
Starting in 1893, he's listed as owning his own drugstore.
It was located at 3 North Sycamore Street, which had previously
been the site of
George C. Starke's drugstore.1
In the 1924 city directory, James's wife
Jessie Virginia Field Banks (1859-1938)3
was listed as the vice-president of the drugstore company in the
city directory.
After 1925 when James passed away, she was listed as the president
until 1933, when R. Henry Southworth became the president,
and the store was renamed "Banks Drug Store".1