Andrew J. Benson Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Surname: BENSON
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

Page 1240  

      ANDREW J. BENSON, a well known resident of Derry, now retired
from active business life, was born in Hookset, N. H., Jan. 9, 1832. When
he was only seven or eight years old his parents, Joseph C. and Judith Davis
Benson, moved to Londonderry, Rockingham county, where he was reared
and educated. He subsequently worked at the shoe trade and at farming. In
1864 he enlisted in Company D, Heavy Artillery, and went direct to Wash-
ington D. C., where his regiment was distributed among the forts around
Washington. After remaining there a few months they were ordered to the
front, but when they had reached Alexandria the order was cancelled and they
returned to the forts at Washington, where Mr. Benson remained until his
honorable discharge in 1865.
       After returning home he found work at the shoe trade and at farming
and so continued until about twenty-five years ago, when he came to Derry
and engaged here in the meat, fish and grocery business. About 1906 he re-
tired. He is past commander of Wesley B. Knight Post, G. A. R.  Although
not deeply interested in politics, he served as selectman in Londonderry for
four years and was representative to the legislature two years, serving effi-
ciently in both offices.
      Mr. Benson was married in 1851 to Miss Ruth J. Paige of Londonderry,
who died at the age of forty-five years. They had twelve children, of whom
nine are now living, namely: Charles 0., of Derry , N. H. ; Ella, now Mrs.
John Conner of Boston, Mass.; Frank A. of Lynn, Mass.; Hon. William
H. Benson of Derry; Oscar, now a resident of South Africa; George W. of
Derry; Fred of Nashau, N. H.; Alice, now Mrs. Bert Kimball of Haverhill,
Mass.; and Harry Benson of Derry.
      Five years after his first wife's death Mr. Benson married for his second
wife Eliza Rowell, who died in March, 1911. He is one of the most highly
respected citizens in this community and his friends in and around Derry are
numbered by the score.

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