Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Benson, E. B. 1860 - 
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     E. B. BENSON, cashier of the Meeker Bank of Litchfield, was born in St. Peter,
Nicollet county, Minn., July 2, 1860, and is the son of Peter and Malena Benson,
natives of Sweden, who were engaged in agricultural pursuits in that section of the
State, having settled there some time in the “Forties,” among the pioneers of the
State.

    The subject of this memoir was reared upon the paternal farm, receiving his
education in the district schools and remained at home until the fall of 1880, when
he attended a course at the business college at Minneapolis. The following spring he
came to Litchfield and entered the Meeker County Bank as book-keeper, and remained
in that capacity until July 7, 1884, when he was made assistant cashier, and in
March, 1885, was promoted to the post of cashier in the same monetary institution.
He is one of the solid young business men of whom Litchfield can justly boast, and
has a bright and prosperous future before him.

    On the 24th of November, 1887, Mr. Benson led to the hymeneal altar Miss Pauline
Fuller, one of Meeker county’s fairest, brightest daughters. She was the child of
George W. Fuller, the well known horticulturist and arboriculturist of Litchfield.
The happiness of the young couple was, however, of but brief duration, the angel of
death claiming the bride on the 9th of May, 1888, and after a brief honeymoon of
about five months she passed to that land Elysian, whose portals we call death,
leaving her husband’s heart and home a desolate waste.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from
Illustrated Album of Biography
Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota
1888


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