Tipton-Rush-Hamilton County IN Archives Biographies.....Bennett, James 1828 - 
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Author: Charles Blanchard, Editor (1883)

   JAMES BENNETT, a native of Rush County, Ind., was born January 12, 1828, and
spent his youth in his native county. He came to Tipton County in October, 1844,
and entered land near Sharpsville. After residing here four years, he returned
to Rush County, purchased a farm, and lived there eight years. He then sold his
farm in Rush County and returned to Tipton County, purchased 160 acres near
Sharpsville, and remained here about twelve years. He then sold this farm and
located in Indianapolis, where he managed a boarding-house for some time. After
this, he lived two years in Hamilton County, two years in Rush County, and, in
1880, returned to Sharpsville, and shortly purchased a farm of 140 acres, where
he now resides. He has sixty-five acres under cultivation. Mr. Bennett was
married, in 1844, to Miss Mary Brookbank. She died August 23, 1864, leaving two
children- Hester A. and Mary E. He next married, December 26, 1865, Levinia A.
Smith. This union has been blessed with two children-Harriet J. and Margaret E.

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COUNTIES OF HOWARD AND TIPTON, INDIANA.

HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL.
ILLUSTRATED.

CHARLES BLANCHARD. EDITOR.
CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO.
1883.


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