Greene-Knox-Sullivan County IN Archives Biographies.....Benefiel, Robert A. J. 1829 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   ROBERT A. J. BENEFIEL, M. D., is a native of Hamilton County, Ohio, where he
was born September 22, 1829, the youngest of eleven children of Robert and Mary
(White) Benefiel. With his parents he settled in Knox County, Ind., where he
lived until 1848, when he joined the regular army, Company B, Third Regiment
United States Cavalry, but the Mexican war, for which he enlisted, ending soon
after, he received his discharge July 10, 1848. Returning to Indiana, he settled
at Carlisle, in Sullivan County, where he read medicine for a time, and in 1853
graduated at the Ohio Medical College. In November, 1853, he was married to
Sarah P. Johnson, of Knox County, by whom he is the father of ten children, five
now living: Jacob W., Caleb W., Robert M., Thomas B. and Leona L. In November,
1854, he located at Scotland, and has lived in Greene County ever since. On
December 19, 1871, his wife died, and on April 8, 1880, he was again married, to
Mrs. Mary J. (Hawkins) Hagaman, who bore him two children—Lulu B. and Alpha O.
His last wife died September 3, 1883. Dr. Benefiel is a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church at Marco, and of the Blue Lodge in Masonry. Having been in the
practice of medicine for over thirty years, he has been very successful, and
looks with satisfaction upon his past record.

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Washingnton Township Biographies

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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

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