Bio of BENTON, Henry W. (b.1857), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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HENRY W. BENTON - Vol III, pg 453-454
One of the most prominent lawyers of Minneapolis is Henry W. Benton, who was
born at Kingston, Ohio, on the 10th of March, 1857. He received his early
education in the public schools of that place and then attended the Ohio
Wesleyan College and spent one year at the Cincinnati Law School. In 1883 he
came to Minneapolis and read law in the offices of Hooker & Miller, passed his
legal examination and was admitted to the bar on the 10th of September, 1883. He
then formed a law partnership with Willis E. Noxon, as Benton & Noxon, which
association was maintained for a short time. Subsequently he became associated
with Judge Molyneaux, in the firm of Benton & Molyneaux, "and that partnership
con­tinued for twenty years, or until the Judge went on the bench. Since August,
1920, Mr. Benton has practiced independently and although he enjoys a large
gen­eral practice, he specializes in corporation law, having won a widespread
reputation in that connection. He is a man of high ethical standards and is an
able orator, well meriting the success he has achieved in a profession where
advance­ent depends upon individual ability, and he is conceded to be a leading
member of the Minneapolis bar.
In June, 1885, occurred the marriage of Mr. Benton to Miss Henrietta A. Van Hook
and to their union three daughters and one son have been born: Margaret, who is
now Mrs. Edmund P. Eichhorn, and is the mother of two children, Edmund Peter and
Susan; Van Hook C., who married Ethel Elliott, a daughter of Judge C. B.
Elliott, and the mother of one child, Elliott Henry; Hariett W., who married
Milden May and is the mother of one son, Charles Benton; and Henrietta K.. who
is the wife of Horace P. Hill.
The political allegiance of Mr. Benton is given to the republican party and the
principles for which it stands. Fraternally he is a thirty-second degree Mason
and he holds membership in Minneapolis Lodge, No. 19, F. & A. M.; Minneapolis
Consistory; and Zuhrah Temple of the Mystic shrine. He is likewise identified
with Minneapolis Lodge, No. 44, of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks.
Socially Mr. Benton holds membership in the Minneapolis Athletic Club, the
Lincoln Club and the Automobile Club, of which latter organization he has been a
member of the board of trustees for years. Mr. Benton is a man of genial and
pleasing personality and has many friends. He is essentially a public-spirited
man and being ever cognizant of the duties and responsibilities as well as the
privileges of good citizenship, he is active in the furtherance of any movement
for the development of the general welfare.