Marshall-Cloud County KS Archives Biographies.....Bennett, Lloyd 1859 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ks/ksfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com May 31, 2007, 12:11 am Author: Emma E. Forter (1917) LLOYD BENNETT. Lloyd Bennett, one of the best-known and most progressive farmers and stockmen of Wells township, is a native of Virginia, but has been a resident of Kansas since the days of his boyhood and has therefore been a witness to the development of this part of the country since pioneer days. He was born in Harrison county, in that section of the Old Dominion now comprised in West Virginia, August 9, 1859, son of A. H. and Sarah (Husted) Bennett, also natives of Virginia. A. H. Bennett was an ardent Union man and when the Civil War broke out was an active champion of the movement to bring about a separation of the loyal western part of the Old Dominion from the seceding state and he went to the front as a soldier of the West Virginia regiments, serving until the close of the war. His wife, the mother of the subject of this sketch, died in West Virginia and he afterward married again and in 1871 came to Kansas with his family and homesteaded a tract of land in Cloud county, where he established his home and where he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring in 1910. Lloyd Bennett was about twelve years of age when he came to Kansas with his father and he remained on the homestead farm in Cloud county until he was sixteen years of age, when, in 1875, he came over into Marshall county and began herding cattle on the Hadley farm three miles south of Irving. He then began working on the W. J. Williams farm and was thus engaged until his marriage in 1881, when he rented a farm one mile north of Bigelow and began farming on his own account. A year later he bought eighty acres of his present farm in section 12 of Wells township and there established his home. Upon taking possession of that place Mr. Bennett began a systematic series of improvements and it was not long until he had a well-improved and profitably cultivated farm. As he prospered * in his operations he added to his place and now has a very well-kept farm of one hundred and sixty acres and one of the best farm plants in that part of the county. In addition to his general farming, Mr. Bennett has long given considerable attention to the raising of high-grade live stock and has done very well. He has a cement silo on his place and in other ways his farm plant shows evidences of the progressive character of his farming. In 1881 Lloyd Bennett was united in marriage to Arta Belle Wells, who was born in this county in 1858, daughter of John D. and Elizabeth Wells, who were among the earliest settlers in Marshall county and further and fitting mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume, and to this union six children have been born, two sons and two daughters, George L. Bennett, of Kansas City, and Archibald, Ethel and Edith, who are at home, and two who died in infancy. The Bennetts have a very pleasant home and have ever taken a proper interest in the general social activities of the community in which they live, helpful in the promotion of all worthy causes thereabout. Mr. Bennett is a Democrat and gives a good citizen's attention to local political affairs, but has not been a seeker after public office. Additional Comments: Extracted from: History of Marshall County, Kansas: its people, industries, and institutions by Emma E. Forter Indianapolis, Ind.: B.F. Bowen & Co. (1917) File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ks/marshall/bios/bennett502gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ksfiles/ File size: 3.9 Kb