Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Bennett, Thomas 1830 - 
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Author: Portrait & Bio Album, 1890

THOMAS BENNETT is engaged in the livery business in Joliet, having an 
establishment well furnished with good steeds and equipages of various 
descriptions, and so conducted as to deserve and receive a fair share of 
public patronage. He has quite an extended experience in this occupation in 
which he embarked in 1872. In earlier years he spent much time on the Pacific 
coast, having at the early age of nineteen years taken his place in the great 
army of gold seekers who, upon the discovery of the precious metal in 
California, rushed thither. As a forty-niner he saw many phases of life which 
he would not have witnessed had he remained in the East, and passed through 
many scenes the relation of which would afford abundant food for thought. The 
parents of our subject were Henry B. and Sarah (Frank) Bennett, of the Empire 
State, who came to Illinois in 1845. Their first home was in the vicinity of 
Aurora, but in 1881, they took up their abode in Joliet. The occupation of the 
father was that of a tiller of the soil. He passed away in 1886, ripe in 
years; his wife had preceded him to the silent land, breathing her last in 
1884. They were the parents of two children, he of whom we write and Sarah, 
now Mrs. Morse, of California. Thomas Bennett was born June 26, 1830, in 
Montgomery County, N. Y., and his early years being passed upon the farm, he 
received such training as was customary to farmer's sons and the education for 
which the common schools afforded facilities. He was in his teens when he 
first became acquainted with the Prairie State to which he accompanied his 
parents, but which be left in a few years to seek the Eldorado to which the 
thoughts of so many were turning. He spent fourteen years on the Pacific 
coast, engaged in mining and the stock business, after which he returned to 
this State and became a farmer. Not many years had elapsed, however, before he 
abandoned agricultural life to embark in the business which he is still 
successfully carrying on. An important event in the life of Mr. Bennett 
transpired in December, 1868, it being no less than his marriage to Miss 
Carrie P., daughter of Laban Clark. One son has come to bless the union. He 
received the name of Allen and upon him have been bestowed all the advantages 
which parental love and the means possessed by the father could compass. He is 
still living under the parental roof. Mr. Bennett is a believer in and a 
supporter of the principles of the Republican party. He stands well among his 
fellow-men and his estimable wife is also highly regarded throughout the 
community.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Will County, Illinois, Containing Full Page 
Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens 
of the County; Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1890

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