Bio of Benson, George F. (b.1834) Wabasha Co., MN
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1884.
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Benson, George F., (page 1175), banker, Lake City, is a son of John and 
Lucy A. (Adams) Benson, natives of New Hampshire. He was born in Boston, 
Massachusetts, in 1834, and educated in the schools of that city, and 
Philips' Exeter Academy, at Exeter, New Hampshire. When seventeen years of 
age he went to Buffalo, New York, and found employment in the office of a 
lumberman, where he remained about eight years. In 1860 he engaged in the 
lumber trade at South Bend, Indiana, and two years later removed his 
business to Plymouth, same state. He became a resident of Lake City in 
1871, and was one of the organizers of the First National Bank, and was 
president of that institution from August 19, 1873, to November 17, 1876. 
In 1877 he became a stockholder in the Lake City Bank, and is now 
director, and one-fourth owner, of this solid establishment. He is a 
member of the masonic order, the Episcopal church, and the republican 
party.
      Revolutionary War
      War of Rebellion (Civil War)