Biographical Sketch of Dr. D. L. Benson, Wright County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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Dr. D. L. Benson, of Mountain Grove, Wright County, Mo., was born in
Perry County, Illinois, in 1836, and is the son of Samuel and Mary
(Baker) Benson, and grandson of Daniel Benson, who was a native of
Ireland, and who immigrated to America, locating in Tennessee, where 
he died.  Samuel Benson was a native of Bedford County, Tenn., born
in 1806.  When about eighteen years of age he immigrated to Boone Co.,
Mo., and remained there for about two years, when he went to St. Louis
and worked at his trade, that of a stone mason.  While in St. Louis he 
married Miss Baker, and soon afterward moved to Perry County, Illinois,
where he followed agricultural pursuits the rest of his life.  He died
in March, 1888.  Mary (Baker) Benson was born in Illinois in 1810, and
died in 1886.  They were the parents of thirteen children, three now
living.  Dr. D. L. Benson was the third child in order of birth.  He
grew to maturity on a farm in Illinois, and received his education in
the common schools of his native county.  Later he read medicine under
a preceptor, but before practicing he married Miss Esther Staton, who
was also born in Perry County, Illinois, in 1842, and reared within 
half a mile of her husband.  Dr. Benson practiced medicine in Perry 
County, Ill., and when forty years of age moved to Mountain Grove,
Wright County, Mo., and his was the fifth family in the town.  Here he
continued the practice of his profession, and is next to the oldest
practitioner in the place.  He is strictly temperate in his habits, 
and has for many years been an elder in the Christian Church.  Dr.
Benson is an inveterate hunter, and every fall abandons his business
and takes his annual hunt.  During pioneer times he killed seventeen
deer at one lick, from May until the 1st of August, and he has killed
deer on what is now the public square of the town.  He was surveyor
of Perry County, Illinois, for fourteen years, and is one of the
successful practitioners of the town in which he now lives.

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