Hardin County OhArchives Biographies.....Benton, Daniel W. 1832 - 
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Author: Warner, Beers & Co.

   DANIEL W. BENTON, farmer, P. O. Kenton, was born in Pickaway County, Ohio.
August 10, 1832. His parents are Elias and Elizabeth J. (Caldwell) Benton.
Daniel is the youngest son of six children, three sons and three daughters. He
remained on the homestead till of age, and educated at the common schools, Mount
Pleasant Academy, at Kingston, Ohio, and also Kenyon College, at Gambier, Ohio.
When nineteen years of age, he began teaching, and during the winters of the
three years following, taught in Pickaway and Fairfield Counties. He
subsequently took up farming, and has pursued that occupation ever since. In
November of 1857, he accompanied his parents to Hardin County, located one mile
north of Kenton, but sold out in August, 1859, and came to Buck Township. He
purchased 212 acres of his present farm, which he has since cleared and
improved. On September 18, 1855, he was married to Harriet M., a daughter of
Henry and Sarah (Winters) Wharton, of Clermont County, Ohio. Mr. Wharton was an
itinerant minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church for thirty years. He
traveled over Southern Ohio and Virginia, and aided in organizing pioneer
churches. He died September 14, 1864, at the age sixty years. Mrs. Wharton was
born August 30, 1809, and now resides in Delaware, Ohio. Mrs. Benton was born in
Ross County, Ohio, February 9, 1836, and has reared six children out of a family
of eight-Henry Willard, born May 10, 1857; Elias, born April 11, 1859, died
December 29,1859; William Horace, born January 14, 1861, died August 18, 1864;
Guy Potter, born May 26, 1865; Clarence Daniel, born September 16, 1868; Eva
Maria, born October 17, 1870; Mary Elizabeth, born November 10, 1873, and Sarah
Marguerite, born May 27, 1877. Henry Willard graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan
University in 1881; also graduated from the Cincinnati Law School, May 1883, and
is now practicing law in Minneapolis, Minn. Guy Potter is a Sophomore in the
Ohio Wesleyan University. Mr. Benton owns 340 acres of well-improved land, and
gives some of his attention to raising thoroughbred Spanish merino sheep. He is
a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and his wife and children of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. He has been a member of the Board of Infirmary
Directors for three years, and was Township Treasurer and Clerk one year each.
He has been County Agent of Hardin County Grange, with which he has been
prominently indentified since its organization.

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"The History of Hardin County, Ohio"
           containing
A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; ITS TOWNSHIPS, TOWNS, CHURCHES,
 SCHOOLS, ETC.; GENERAL AND LOCAL STATISTICS; MILITARY
   RECORD; PORTRAITS OF EARLY SETTLERS AND PROMINENT
         MEN; HISTORY OF NORTHWEST TERRITORY;
             HISTORY OF OHIO; MISCELLANEOUS
                  MATTERS, ETC., ETC.

              CHICAGO: WARNER, BEERS & CO.
                          1883

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