Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Bennett, William July 23, 1834 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.org/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.org/ny/nyfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nan Starjak naela@earthlink.net January 20, 2008, 9:56 am Author: Hardin & Willard Bennett, William, Norway, was born in Newport July 23, 1834. His father was Hiram Bennett, a son of Joshua Bennett, who came from New England at an early date and settled in Ohio where he died. Hiram Bennett came with his father to Ohio and here his life was spent. He married Almira Churchill of Deerfield. She bore him six children. By his second wife, Lydia Cavenaugh, he had five. The death of Mr. Bennett occurred in 1861, and that of his wife in 1891. Wm. Bennett married Emily I. Warner, a native of Connecticut, by whom he had six children, two of whom are still living, Gary and Olie. Mr. Bennett is a carpenter by trade and runs a saw-mill. He has spent most of his life in Ohio, but during the last eight years has resided in Norway. In 1884 he purchased the Black Creek Western Mill. He is a Republican and has been clerk of Ohio three years. He and wife are Methodists. Additional Comments: source: History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of its citizens edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893 550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.org/ny/herkimer/bios/bennett247gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/nyfiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb