Louis was more properly known as Louis Banks, and more properly yet known as the Reverend Louis Albert Banks, Doctor of Divinity, a celebrated Methodist who, at age forty-seven, had already churned through a series of life adventures that included entering college at age eleven, being shot in Seattle while fighting on behalf of the Chinese during the anti-Chinese riots, chastising saloon-keepers and sweatshop owners for their respective roles in oppressing the poor, and running a distant third in the 1893 race for governor of Massachusetts.
