Benoni C. Matthews Biography


	This biography appears on page 444 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
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				BENONI C. MATTHEWS. 

	Benoni C. Matthews is well known in professional circles of Sioux 
Falls as an able and successful attorney, having there practiced law in 
association with Elbert Orlando Jones since August, 1897. His birth 
occurred in Sigourney, Iowa, on the 13th of October, 1870, his parents 
being Fenelon B. and Mary A. (Hogin) Matthews, the former born at 
Leaksville, North Carolina, in 1819, and the latter in Indianapolis, 
Indiana, in 1833. Fenelon B. Matthews was a Federal veteran of the 
Civil war, having served as second lieutenant of the Thirty-third Iowa 
Volunteer Infantry from 1861 until mustered out at New Orleans in 1865. 

	Benoni C. Matthews acquired his more advanced education in the 
University of Nebraska at Lincoln, which institution conferred upon him 
the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1895, and two years later gave him 
the degrees of Master of Arts and Bachelor of Laws. In 1897 he located 
for the practice of law in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and has there 
remained throughout the intervening seventeen years, having been 
associated during the entire period with Elbert O. Jones. 

	On the 6th of November, 1901, at Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Mr. 
Matthews was united in marriage to Miss Helen J. Chapman, a 
representative of a New England family and a daughter of J. H. Chapman. 
They have one son, Norris Chapman Matthews, born August 2, 1911. In his 
political views Mr. Matthews is a democrat, while his religious faith 
is that of the Methodist church.