Lapeer-Keweenaw County MI Archives Biographies.....Bennett, George H. 1859 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

GEORGE H. BENNETT is a school teacher and the owner of forty acres on section 5,
Attica Township, Lapeer County. He was born in Lapeer Township July 28, 1859,
and is a son of William and Mary A. (Bishop) Bennett, the former a native of
Leicestershire, England, who was born in 1836, and died in 1884; the latter of
Devonshire, England, born in 1835, and still survives. Our subject's father came
to the United States in the year 1851, first settling in Oakland County, where
he was engaged on a farm for two years. He there purchased forty acres of land
two and one-half miles south of Lapeer city, upon which he lived for six years.

  This Mr. Bennett sold and purchased eighty acres of the farm where the family
still reside. He cleared the above tract, it being entirely wild at the time of
his coming here. The names of his children were James, George, Rose, William,
Matilda, Alvin (deceased), Orrin and Charles. The eldest born died at the age of
fourteen years; Rose became the wife of George H. Fowler; she died in 1884,
leaving one child—Fred W., who is a farmer in Lapeer Township. William resides
in Colorado and is employed in a wholesale dry-goods store. The other children
still reside at home.

  Our subject's father was a Republican in principles although he never became
naturalized. His mother came here at the age of twelve years with her parents,
William and Mary Bishop, they being pioneers of Oakland County, but soon settled
in Attica Township. Our subject was the second child and first son of his
father's family. He spent seventeen years of his life and then began to work out
to support himself, the family being large. During the winter season he attended
the district school until the age of twenty-one, when he taught his first term
and has been teaching most of the time since. In 1882-83 he attended the Fenton
Normal School, taking a special course of study. His work as a teacher has been
characterized by the most gratifying success. For one year he was engaged in the
graded school in Allouez Mines in the Upper Peninsula. He is a member of the
Masonic fraternity, belonging to Attica Lodge, No. 259. He also belongs to the
Knights of the Maccabees of Attica. In politics he is a Republican and for six
years has served as School Inspector, and last spring (1891) was elected
Township Clerk. It may be surprising that a teacher should have so much spare
time, but he has been enabled to improve and cultivate his farm and besides work
at the carpenter's trade, by which he has been able to add considerable sums to
the family exchequer.


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Extracted from:

Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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