Biographical Sketch of Charles Bennett - Andrew County, Missouri

>From "History of Missouri, Andrew & DeKalb County" Published 1888

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Transcribed by: Penny Harrell (Incog3678@aol.com)

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Charles Bennett is a native of Canada, and was born in the Province
of Quebec, October 17, 1838.  He is a son of Andrew and Ann (Abbott)
Bennett, both born in the County of Cork, Ireland, the former in
1797, and the latter in 1817.  They were married in Canada in 1833.
The father was a farmer, and immigrated to America when he was
thirty-four years of age.  He died in 1865, and in 1867 the widowed
mother and her children removed to Andrew County, MO.  She now
resides in Gentry County, MO.  Her children..six sons and seven 
daughters are all living. Charles was reared on a farm, and has 
devoted his life to agricultural pursuits.  He is now one of the most
extensive farmers and stock raisers in Andrew County, and resides in
Platte Township.  He received a limited education in the common
schools of Canada.  Being born to poor parents, whose struggles for
the necessaries of life were difficult, he had no opportunity to
receive a thorough education, but he is a close reader and observer,
and is an intelligent man.  He has liberal views, and is practical in
his vocation, and lenient in his deportment toward his fellow men.  
When he began business he had no other capital than an energetic and
ambitious disposition, by means of which he has become a prosperous man,
and established a high social standing, and a splendid reputation as a 
citizen.  In 1881 he was united in marriage with Mrs. Susannah (Nugent)
McCombe.  They have two sons and one daughter.