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W. B. BENNET

     Liberty County, Georgial famed in former years as the
seat of much refinement and sterling piety, numbers among
its sons W. B. Bennet, who was born October 19th, 1827.  His 
father died in 1829, from which time he was under the care 
of his mother alone until 1842, the date of her marriage with
Rev. Joseph S. Baker, D. D.  A few years after, he entered 
Mercer University, completing his college course in 1848.
Having adopted teaching as his profession, he went to 
Lumpkin, where he formed the acquaintance of Miss M. J.
Campbell, a pupil of Wesleyan Female College, Macon, and
only daughter of Rev. J. H. Campbell, D. D.  This acquaintance
developed into an attachment, which led to the marriage of
the two, in 1851...  He moved first to Thomasville, and, after
some years, to Troupville, which was at that time the county
seat of Lowndes...

     In the vocations to which he has given attention he has
Enjoyed a reasonable measure of success.  At the law he was 
Solicitor-General of his circuit for tow terms, and while engaged
In that profession represented Brooks County in the Legislature.
As a teacher he was called, shortly after his ordination, to a 
Professorship at Young Female College, in Thomasville, which
Position he filled with satisfaction to the Trustees for two years, 
And from which he retired only because the financial condition
Of the country rendered the collection of tuition dues very
difficult…

      Before the Supreme Court he commanded the highest attention,
And called forth the most flattering encomiums of the judges on
various occasions.  In social intercourse he is frank, sometimes to
the verge of bluntness, and with a vein of humor, which never
mistakes railing for raillery, or tinges satire with the slightest 
bitterness.  Indeed there is no such thing as venom in his composition
the very feeling of anger, or, of indignation being marked much more
distinctly by a sense of the wrong which excited it, than by any
consciousness of personal injury, or any desire of personal revenge.

Ref:  HISTORY OF THE BAPTIST DENOMINATION IN GEORGIA, 1881,
Atlanta, GA, pp. 33-34.